Fourteen contributions that grew out of presentations at the first Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems symposium held in Baden-Baden in the summer of 1999. A number of papers look at the traditional topic of image processing, detailing various applications that make use of tunable and adaptive techniques using the Gabor transform, Markov Random Fields, Gibbs Random Fields, multifractals. and multiresolution. After the presentation of four papers looking at the performance evaluation of algorithms, the final section of the work is dedicated to systemic applications of the techniques and theories, including discussions of system architecture, algorithmic assessment in robotics, and applications of vision to autonomous navigation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)