This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th workshop on ‘Dynamic Perception’ which was held on November 18-19, 2004, at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. As in the previous meetings, the conference is characterised by its high degree of interdisciplinary. The presentations cover the fields of computer science, psychology, neuroscience as well as biology. The common denominator of all contributions consists in the observation that the sensory systems of man, animals and robots have to solve similar tasks such as goal-directed behaviour, orientation within a 3D world or object identification, to name just a few.