This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2005, held in Joensuu, Finland in June 2005.
The 124 papers presented together with 6 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 236 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on image segmentation and understanding, color image processing, applications, theory, medical image processing, image compression, digitalization of cultural heritage, computer vision, machine vision, and pattern recognition.