This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, EMMCVPR 2001, held in Sophia Antipolis, France in September 2001. The 42 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The book offers topical sections on probabilistic models and estimation; image modeling and synthesis; clustering, grouping, and segmentation; optimization and graphs; and shapes, curves, surfaces, and templates.