This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition, DAGM 2002, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2002. The 74 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 140 submissions. The papers address all current issues in pattern recognition. The book offers topical sections on tracking, segmentation, 3D shape, optical flow, recognition, and spherical images.