Peter Hawkes obtained his M.A. and Ph.D (and later, Sc.D.) from the University of Cambridge, where he subsequently held Fellowships of Peterhouse and of Churchill College. From 1959 – 1975, he worked in the electron microscope section of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, after which he joined the CNRS Laboratory of Electron Optics in Toulouse, of which he was Director in 1987. He was Founder-President of the European Microscopy Society and is a Fellow of the Microscopy and Optical Societies of America. He is a member of the editorial boards of several microscopy journals and serial editor of Advances in Electron Optics.

• Chapter 1 – Introduction to Hypergraph Theory and Its Use in Engineering and Image Processing (BRETTO)Chapter 2 - Image Segmentation Using the Wigner-Ville Distribution (HORMIGO/CRISTOBAL)Chapter 3 – Statistical and Deterministic Regularities: Utilization of Motion and Grouping in Biological and Artificial Visual Systems (KRUEGER/WORGOTTER)Chapter 4 – The Hopping Electron Cathode for Cathode Ray Tubes (ROSINK et al)