This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the First International Conference on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, ICPAMI 2024, held in Shanghai, China, from August 30 to September 01, 2024. The 28 papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. These papers have been organized under the following topical sections: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning; Intelligent System and Optimization Algorithm.