From 13.07.2008 to 18.07.2008, the Dagstuhl Seminar 08291 Statistical and Geometrical Approaches to Visual Motion Analysis was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The rst section describes

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... the seminar topics and goals in general. Motion analysis is central to both human and machine vision. It involves the interpretation of image data over time. It is crucial for a range of motion tasks such as obstacle detection, depth estimation, video analysis, scene interpretation, video compression and other applications. Motion analysis is dicult because it requires modeling the complicated relationships between the observed image data and the motion of objects and motion patterns (e.g. falling rain) in the visual scene. This workshop was focused on critical aspects of motion analysis, including motion segmentation and the modeling of motion patterns. The aim was to gather researchers who are experts in the dierent motion tasks and in the dier-ent techniques used. These techniques include variational approaches, level set Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 08291 Statistical and Geometrical Approaches to Visual Motion Analysis