Book excerpt: This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the second International Workshop on Object Representation in Computer Vision, held in conjunction with ECCV '96 in Cambridge, UK, in April 1996. The 15 revised full papers contained in the book were selected from 45 submissions for presentation at the workshop. Also included are three invited contributions based on the talks by Takeo Kanade, Jan Koenderink, and Ram Nevatia as well as a workshop report by the volume editors summarizing several panel discussions and the general state of the art in the area.