These proceedings include the contributions to the 8th International Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization held in November 2003 in München, Germany. The contributions cover the areas: - Image-based Modeling and Rendering - Geometric Modeling - Motion and Multi-view Processing - Shape Extraction and Registration - Rendering and Scientific Visualization - Volume Data: Processing, Rendering, Applications - Object Recognition The workshop has been organized jointly by members of the Computer Graphics & Visualization Group and the Media Technology Group of Technische Universität München. VMV 2003 has generously been supported by the DFG Graduate Research Center SFB 603 "Model-based Analysis and Visualization of Complex Scenes and Sensor Data" and the DFG Graduate College GRK-244 "3-D Image Analysis and Synthesis" at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, by the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken, and by Microsoft Deutschland GmbH.