The AMDO 2002 workshop took place at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) on 21-23 November, 2002, sponsored by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), AERFAI (Spanish Association for Pattern Rec- nition and Image Analysis), the CICYT (Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Spanish Government), the European Commission (Human Potential Programme: High Level Scienti?c Conferences), and the Mathematics and C- puter Science Department of the UIB. In addition, Egse (Eurographics Spanish Chapter)helpedwithdisseminationandpromotion. Thesubjectoftheworkshop...

This text constitutes the refereed proceedings of the first International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, AMDO 2000, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in September 2000. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The book is devoted to articulated motion and deformable objects, this collection covers the following issues: geometry and physics of deformable objects; motion analysis; articulated motion and animation; visualization of deformable models; 3D-recovery from motion; single or multiple view human motion...