Special Issue on Machine Vision.

This special issue of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) presents the best papers of the 28th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) held in Imperial College London, UK, on 4th-7th September 2017. The papers presented in this issue offer a snapshot of some of the best work in the field, on the topics of (1) learning quantised representations by deep neural networks, (2) 3D shape estimation, (3) novel image representations, (4) image descriptors and matching, and (5) data generation. I Image descriptors and matching i by local descriptors or deep neural networks remains an active research topic. [Extracted from the article]