Book excerpt: This title is part of a two volume set that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2007. Coverage includes shape and texture, image and video processing, face and gesture, tracking, camera networks, learning, motion and tracking, retrieval and search, human pose estimation, matching, face/gesture/action detection and recognition, low level vision and phtometory, motion and tracking, human detection, and segmentation.