Face Recognition and Activity Interpretation -- Face Recognition with Biologically Motivated Boosted Features -- A New Method for Synthetic Face Generation Using Spline Curves -- Epipolar Geometry for Humanoid Robotic Heads -- Monitoring Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) of Elderly Based on 3D Key Human Postures -- Attention, Search and Maps -- Remembering Pictures of Real-World Images Using Eye Fixation Sequences in Imagery and in Recognition -- Towards a Model of Information Seeking by Integrating Visual, Semantic and Memory Maps -- An Entropy-Based Approach to the Hierarchical Acquisition of Perception-Action Capabilities -- The Role of Implicit Context Information in Guiding Visual-Spatial Attention -- Scene Interpretation -- Probabilistic Pose Recovery Using Learned Hierarchical Object Models -- Semantic Reasoning for Scene Interpretation -- Object Detection for a Humanoid Robot Using a Probabilistic Global Workspace.

This volume constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Cognitive Vision Workshop, ICVW 2008, held in Santorini, Greece, on May 12, 2008. The 11 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They cover important aspects of cognitive vision like face recognition, activity interpretation, attention, memory maps and scene interpretation.