Computer Vision-ACCV 2009 : 9th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Xi'an, September 23-27, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Paperback by Zha, Hongbin (EDT); Taniguchi, Rin-ichiro (EDT); Maybank, Stephen (EDT), ISBN 3642122965, ISBN-13 9783642122965, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

It givesus greatpleasureto presentthe proceedings of the 9th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2009), held in Xi’an, China, in September 2009. This was the ?rst ACCV conference to take place in mainland China. We received a total of 670 full submissions, which is a new record in the ACCV series. Overall, 35 papers were selected for oral presentation and 131 as posters, yielding acceptance rates of for oral, for poster, and in total. In the paper reviewing, we continued the tradition of previous Chairs received a pool of about 20 papers and nominated a number of potential reviewers for each paper. Then, Program Committee Chairs allocated at least three reviewers to each paper, taking into consideration any con?icts of interest and the balance of loads. Once the reviews were ?nished, the Area Chairs made summaryreportsforthepapersintheirpools,basedonthereviewers’comments and on their own assessments of the papers.