This 18-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during October 15-18, 2025. The 692 full papers included in this book, comprising 66 oral presentations and 626 posters, were carefully reviewed and selected from 2370 submissions. PRCV's mission is to serve as a comprehensive platform for dialogues among researchers from both the academic field and the industry. While its primary focus is to encourage academic exchange, it also places emphasis on fostering ties between academia and industry, keeping abreast of leading academic innovations and to showcase the most recent research breakthroughs, pioneering thoughts, and advanced techniques in pattern recognition and computer vision.