Guest Editorial: Special Section on CVPR 2014

This special section contains selected papers from the premier annual computer vision conference, IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June, 2014, jointly sponsored by the IEEE and the Computer Vision Foundation. In 2014, there were 1,807 submissions to CVPR, from which 540 were selected for oral or poster presentation. From the accepted papers, area chairs recommended a subset that were especially appreciated by the reviewers for their technical contributions, and for their expected impacts to the field. We, program chairs from that conference, invited authors of those papers to submit a longer manuscript to this special section. The submitted papers underwent a second review process to guarantee that all papers included in this special section be rigorously peer-reviewed. As a result, seven papers were accepted for publication in this special section. These papers cover areas like 3D computer vision; computational photography, sensing and display; medical and biological image analysis; optimization methods; and physics-based vision and shape-from-X. We found these papers to be delightful, and we hope that you will, too.