Preface to the USTC alumni’s series Preface Part Ⅰ Segmentation and Registration Chapter 1 Graph Cuts Based Active Contours (GCBAC) Chapter 2 A Novel Region Constrained Non-Rigid Image Registration Framewrk Part Ⅱ Face and Biometrics Chapter 3 Paralle Iae Matrix Compression for Face Recognition Chapter 4 Facial Expression Recognition Based on Statistical Local Features Chapter 5 A Hierarchical Coitional Model for Face Representation and Sketching Chapter 6 A Brief Introduction to Skeleton-Based Fingerprint Minutiae Extraction Part Ⅲ Image Annotation Chapter 7 Image Transform Bootstrapping and Its Applications to Semantic Scene Classification Chapter 8 Bipartite Graph Reinforcement Model for Web Image Annotation Part Ⅳ Video Analysis Chapter 9 Motion Estimation Based on Trilinear and Optical Flow Constraints Chapter 10 Appearance Modeling for Visual Tracking Chapter 11 Robust Monocular 3D Tracking of Articulate A Movement Chapter 12 Video Classification via Local 3D Eigen Analysis Chapter 13 Video Annotation: Supervised, Semi-Supervised and Active Learning Approaches Part Ⅴ 3D Reconstruction Chapter 14 Rapid 3D Modeling from a Single Image Based on Minimal 2D Control Points Chapter 15 siconvex Optimization for Robust Geometric Reconstruction Chapter 16 Deformable Structure from Motion: A Factorization Scheme