The development of the digital home technology is a trend of information penetration and fusion in life. Numerous digital media equipments and contents have been applied into home and life. The growth of media contents and broadband-width stimulates the problems of producing, editing, transmitting, and displaying of media contents. It brings enormous opportunities as well as challenges for the researchers and application developers. The 5th International Conference on Digital Home (ICDH 2014), with the theme of “Digital Home, Better Life”, technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, is a premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of digital application in daily life. It will bring together leading engineers and scientists in graphics and image processing, network communications, and computer technologies from around the world. It will be a platform for communication and share of the cutting-edge ideas and technologies in digital home development. ICDH 2014 is hosted by Sun Yat-sen University and Dalian University of Technology, chaired by Prof. Xiao-Nan Luo and Prof. Zhong-Xuan Luo. The conference sets International Technical Committee and Organizing Committee. The International Technical Committee is in charge of paper review, and the Organizing Committee is in charge of the preparation, organization and operation of the conference.