The four-volume set LNCS 11256, 11257, 11258, and 11259 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2018, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2018.

The 179 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 399 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections:

Part I: Biometrics, Computer Vision Application

Part II: Deep Learning

Part III: Document Analysis, Face Recognition and Analysis, Feature Extraction and Selection, Machine Learning

Part IV: Object Detection and Tracking, Performance Evaluation and Database, Remote Sensing