This book constitutes thoroughly revised and selected papers from the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, February 27 - March 1, 2017. The 18 thoroughly revised and extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 402 submissions. The papers contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on image and video formation, preprocessing, analysis and understanding; motion, tracking and stereo vision; computer graphics and rendering; data visualization and interactive visual data analysis; agent-based human-robot interactions; and user experience.