Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition : Second International Workshop EMMCVPR’99 York UK July 26–29 1999 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition EMMCVPR99 held in York UK in July 1999.The book presents 11 revised full papers together with 11 papers presented at the meeting as posters. Those papers were selected from a total of 33 submissions. The book is divided in sections on shape minimum description length Markov random fields contours search and consistent labeling tracking and video and biomedical applications