The Eleventh IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA2009, was held in Keio University from May 20 trough 22, 2009. Reflecting growing areas of machine vision applications, which include surveillance, measurement, control, interaction, and various object recognition, the conference attracted about 150 submissions from 29 countries in spite of serious recession and swine flu. We selected 39 oral and 83 poster presentations, and the conference was quite active in friendly atmosphere. Encouraged by the great success of the conference, we planned this special section and asked the conference participants and other researchers in this field to submit papers. We received 48 papers, and we have selected 14 papers among them through rigorous review process. We believe that the papers show the high quality of current machine vision research and wide variety of applications. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the authors for their valuable contributions and to all the reviewers for their cooperation in completing the reviewing process under a tight schedule.
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