This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, EMMCVPR 2011, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in July , 2011. The book presents 30 revised full papers selected from a total of 52 submissions. The book is divided in sections on discrete and continuous optimization, segmentation, motion and video, and, learning and shape analysis.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, EMMCVPR 2013, held in Lund, Sweden, in August 2013. The 26 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Medical Imaging; Image Editing; 3D Reconstruction; Shape Matching; Scene Understanding; Segmentation; Superpixels; Statistical Methods and Learning.