It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to BMVC 2007 at Warwick University. This year we received just over 300 submissions which is the second-highest number of submissions for BMVC, after an unpredictably large number of submissions last year.We believe that a growing number of international submissions to BMVC reflects its international prominence.

The task of reviewing was distributed over 87 experts, each of whom on average reviewed 10 papers. The final selection took place at a meeting of the 23 Area Chairs on 18 June 2007 at the Computer Science Department, University of Warwick. A total of 114 papers were selected, 41 for oral presentation and 73 for poster presentation.

We are very pleased to have keynote addresses by Professor Hans Knutsson from the Linkoping University in Sweden and Professor Mubarak Shah from the University of Central Florida. We are also delighted to have an invited tutorial on the emerging area of Visual SLAM by Dr Andrew Davison from the Imperial College, and Dr Andrew Calway and Dr Walterio Mayol-Cuevas from the University of Bristol.

We are grateful to Siemens and Warwick Warp for sponsoring the best security paper prize. The best science paper, the best poster, and the Sullivan thesis prizes are sponsored by the BMVA.

The organisation of the conference would not have been possible without the selfless help of many people whom we would like to thank. The reviewers and area chairs did a fantastic job of providing timely reviews and devoting much of their precious time to participate in the paper selection meeting. The CAWS team at Manchester University have been helpful in answering our queries related to the CAWS online system used for the conference. Manuel Trucco (BMVC 2006) was always very generous in providing tips and helpful advice on most matters regarding conference organisation. Majid Mirmehdi and Andrew Fitzgibbon (BMVA) offered almost instant help with general administrative as well as technical matters whenever asked. Catherine Pillet, our finance officer, has been invaluable in handling the registrations and delegate queries. Our thanks also to Jean Trevis of Warwick Conferences.

We would like to thank the staff and PhD students in the Computer Science Department at University of Warwick, especially those in the Signal and Image Processing and Medical Informatics and Medical Image Computing (MiMIC) research groups, for their help during the conference week. A special thanks to Muhammad Arif for double-checking the conference programme for us. We hope that you find the conference informative and stimulating, and that you enjoy your stay at Warwick.

Nasir Rajpoot and Abhir Bhalerao
Warwick, July 2007