This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR'99), held in York in July 1999. The book presents 11 revised full papers together with 11 papers presented at the meeting as posters. Those papers were selected from a total of 33 submissions. The book is divided into sections on shape, minimum description length, Markov random fields, contours, search and consistent labelling, tracking and video, and biomedical applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Similarity Based Pattern Recognition, SIMBAD 2011, held in Venice, Italy, in September 2011. The 16 full papers and 7 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on dissimilarity characterization and analysis; generative models of similarity data; graph-based and relational models; clustering and dissimilarity data; applications; spectral methods and embedding.