Recent times have seen increasing attention on representing images and videos on Riemannian manifolds. Such representations offer new means of preserving intrinsic data structures, which Euclidean-based representations often fail to capture. Preserving the intrinsic structure can bring superior benefits in terms of richer representations and robustness to variations. However, to intrinsically operate on the manifold incurs expensive computation complexity because of using non-linear operators. Furthermore, it is difficult to extend the existing computer vision techniques which were originally developed in Euclidean space into the manifold. To address these issues, recent research often uses extrinsic approaches such as tangent space projection and kernelised approaches. Unfortunately, these methods are not free of drawbacks in terms of low accuracy and high computational load. To that end, this research studies approaches for analysing manifold features which achieve superior performance from the manifold structures whilst computational complexity can be massively reduced. This thesis illustrates the general steps of manifold approaches for image and video analysis, here called manifold scheme, followed by discussions on the possible ways to reduce the computational complexities. Guided by the manifold scheme, this research further proposes two frameworks to analyse manifold features: random projection on Riemannian manifolds and convex hull on Symmetric Positive Definite manifolds. To solve the problems posed by each framework, we present three solutions. Through experiments on several computer vision tasks, we verified that our proposed methods can massively reduce the computational load, while still achieving competitive performance. In addition, our manifold scheme shows another possible way to reduce the computational load of manifold approaches through the generating manifold model using effective lower-level features with low dimensionality. Thus, this thesis proposes a landmark manifold model generated by effective landmark points for facial emotion recognition, which shows competitive performance with much lower computational complexity compared to state-of-the-art manifold methods. Design of experiments (10%)