This volume contains selected papers presented at Vision Interface 1998, held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 1998. It spans a wide spectrum of topics in computer vision and image processing. The field of computer vision and image processing has grown at a phenomenal rate due to the development of innovative techniques coupled with the advance in hardware that have been made available at lower cost. Numerous practical applications are now being realized to justify the theme of Vision Interface 1998 - "Real World Applications of Computer Vision".