Colour constancy for scenes with varying illumination -- Color angular indexing -- Bidirectional reflection distribution function expressed in terms of surface scattering modes -- Generalizing Lambert's Law for smooth surfaces -- Local scale control for edge detection and blur estimation -- Regularization, scale-space, and edge detection filters -- Direct differential range estimation using optical masks -- Generalised epipolar constraints -- Object models from contour sequences -- Directions of motion fields are hardly ever ambiguous -- Euclidean reconstruction: From paraperspective to perspective -- Optical flow and phase portrait methods for environmental satellite image sequences -- Refinement of optical flow estimation and detection of motion edges -- Reliable extraction of the camera motion using constraints on the epipole -- Accuracy vs. efficiency trade-offs in optical flow algorithms -- Rigorous bounds for two-frame structure from motion -- The rank 4 constraint in multiple (?3) view geometry -- Using singular displacements for uncalibrated monocular visual systems -- Duality of multi-point and multi-frame geometry: Fundamental shape matrices and tensors -- On the appropriateness of camera models -- Ground plane motion camera models -- Snakes and splines for tracking non-rigid heart motion -- Local quantitative measurements for cardiac motion analysis -- Application of model based image interpretation methods to diabetic neuropathy -- Global alignment of MR images using a scale based hierarchical model -- Reconstruction of blood vessel networks from x-ray projections and a vascular catalogue -- Combining multiple motion estimates for vehicle tracking -- Visual surveillance monitoring and watching -- A robust active contour model for natural scene contour extraction with automatic thresholding -- A maximum-likelihood approach to visual event classification -- Measures for silhouettes resemblance and representative silhouettes of curved objects -- Real-time lip tracking for audio-visual speech recognition applications -- Matching object models to segments from an optical flow field -- Quantification of articular cartilage from MR images using active shape models -- Direct methods for self-calibration of a moving stereo head -- Dense reconstruction by zooming -- Telecentric optics for computational vision -- Recognition, pose and tracking of modelled polyhedral objects by multi-ocular vision -- Locating objects of varying shape using statistical feature detectors -- Generation of semantic regions from image sequences -- Tracking of occluded vehicles in traffic scenes -- Imposing hard constraints on soft snakes -- X Vision: Combining image warping and geometric constraints for fast visual tracking -- Human body tracking by monocular vision -- Computational perception of scene dynamics -- A filter for visual tracking based on a stochastic model for driver behaviour -- Elastically adaptive deformable models -- Statistical feature modelling for active contours -- Motion deblurring and super-resolution from an image sequence -- Uncalibrated visual tasks via linear interaction -- Finding naked people -- Acquiring visual-motor models for precision manipulation with robot hands -- A system for reconstruction of missing data in image sequences using sampled 3D AR models and MRF motion priors -- Elimination of specular surface-reflectance using polarized and unpolarized light -- Separating real and virtual objects from their overlapping images -- Goal-directed video metrology -- Reconstructing polyhedral models of architectural scenes from photographs -- Algebraic varieties in multiple view geometry -- 3D model acquisition from extended image sequences -- Computing structure and motion of general 3D curves from monocular sequences of perspective images -- A factorization based algorithm for multi-image projective structure and motion.

The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) has established itself as a major event in this exciting and very active field of research and development. These refereed two-volume proceedings include the 123 papers accepted for presentation at the 4th ECCV, held in Cambridge, UK, in April 1996; these papers were selected from a total of 328 submissions and together give a well-balanced reflection of the state of the art in computer vision. The papers in volume II are grouped in sections on color vision and shading; image features; motion; medical applications; tracking; applications and recognition; calibration, focus, and optics; applications; and structure from motion.