This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2005, held in Versailles, France, in September 2005.

The 65 revised full papers presented together with 43 revised poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 185 submissions. Topics addressed include image analysis, biometrics, computer vision, pattern recognition, object recognition, segmentation and grouping, medical imaging, motion Analysis, computer vision/computer graphics collaboration, augmented reality, image and video compression, model-based vision approaches, image and video indexing and database retrieval, shape representation and analysis, model-based object tracking in image sequences, as well as a great variety of applications for multimedia, in medical, and biomedical fields.