This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2007, held in Montreal, Canada, in August 2007.
The 71 revised full papers and 44 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 261 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image restoration and enhancement, image and video processing and analysis, image segmentation, computer vision, pattern recognition for image analysis, shape and matching, motion analysis, tracking, image retrieval and indexing, image and video coding and encryption, biometrics, biomedical image analysis, and applications.