Computer Vision in Advanced Control Systems: Innovations in Practice -- Human Action Recognition: Contour-Based and Silhouette-based Approaches -- The Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Real Time Audience Analysis Sy -- 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 -- Navigation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Acoustic and Visual Data Processing -- Efficient Denoising Algorithms for Intelligent Recognition Systems -- Image Segmentation Based on Two-dimensional Markov Chains.