Henri Maître is a Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, France where he was Head of the Signal and Image Department from 1999 to 2004. His research includes work on image analysis, image understanding and computer vision, and applications in the domain of satellite and aerial image processing. Henri Maître received the engineering degree from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France (71), and the Docteur es Sciences degree in Physics from the University of Paris VI (82).

• Chapter 1. Statistical properties of images (Henri Maître). Chapter 2. Image sampling and fractal representation (Henri Maître). Chapter 3. Discrete representations (Isabelle Bloch). Chapter 4. Restoration of images (Henri Maître). Chapter 5. Mathematical morphology (Isabelle Bloch). Chapter 6. Markov fields (Florence Tupin and Marc Sigelle). Chapter 7. Wavelets and image processing (Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu and Jean-Christophe Pesquet). Chapter 8. Partial differential equations (Yann Gousseau). Chapter 9. Preprocessing (Henri Maître). Chapter 10. Detection of contours in images (Henri Maître). Chapter 11. Segmentation by regions (Henri Maître). Chapter 12. Textures (Henri Maître). Chapter 13. Description of contours and shapes (Henri Maître). List of Authors.Index.

Henri Maître is a Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, France where he was Head of the Signal and Image Department from 1999 to 2004. His research includes work on image analysis, image understanding and computer vision, and applications in the domain of satellite and aerial image processing. Henri Maître received the engineering degree from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France (71), and the Docteur es Sciences degree in Physics from the University of Paris VI (82).

• Chapter 1. Statistical properties of images (Henri Maître). Chapter 2. Image sampling and fractal representation (Henri Maître). Chapter 3. Discrete representations (Isabelle Bloch). Chapter 4. Restoration of images (Henri Maître). Chapter 5. Mathematical morphology (Isabelle Bloch). Chapter 6. Markov fields (Florence Tupin and Marc Sigelle). Chapter 7. Wavelets and image processing (Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu and Jean-Christophe Pesquet). Chapter 8. Partial differential equations (Yann Gousseau). Chapter 9. Preprocessing (Henri Maître). Chapter 10. Detection of contours in images (Henri Maître). Chapter 11. Segmentation by regions (Henri Maître). Chapter 12. Textures (Henri Maître). Chapter 13. Description of contours and shapes (Henri Maître). List of Authors.Index.