The research book is focused on the recent advances in computer vision methodologies and innovations in practice. The Contributions include: ·          Human Action Recognition: Contour-Based and Silhouette-based Approaches. ·         The Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Real Time Audience Analysis System. ·         Panorama Construction from Multi-view Cameras in Outdoor Scenes. ·         A New Real-Time Method of Contextual Image Description and Its Application in Robot Navigation and Intelligent Control. ·         Perception of Audio Visual Information for Mobile Robot Motion Control Systems. ·         Adaptive Surveillance Algorithms Based on the Situation Analysis. ·         Enhanced, Synthetic and Combined Vision Technologies for Civil Aviation. ·         Navigation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Acoustic and Visual DataProcessing. ·         Efficient Denoising Algorithms for Intelligent Recognition Systems. ·         Image Segmentation Based on Two-dimensional Markov Chains. The book is directed to the PhD students, professors, researchers and software developers working in the areas of digital video processing and computer vision technologies.