Henri Maître

Emeritus Professor at Telecom ParisTech, Institut Mines-Telecom

Image processing, pattern recognition

+33 1 45 81 76 55 - henri.maitre @ telecom-paristech.fr

Brief CV:

Ingénieur Ecole Centrale de Lyon 1971
AEA Fluid Mechanics, University of Lyon, 1971
DEA Coherent Optics, University of Paris- Orsay, 1972
Thèse d'Etat Applied Physics, University Paris 6, 1982

Professional career (positions at Teleccom ParisTech (alias "ENST", "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications", "Sup Télécom", "Telecom Paris") since 1971) :

Research ingenieur (1972-1976), assistant professor (1976-1981), professor (1981-2013)
Head of IMAGES Department (1987-1998)
Head of Signal and Image Processing Department (2002-2004)
Director of Joint CNRS-Telecom-ParisTech Lab "Laboratoire de Traitement et Communication de l'information" (LTCI), UMR 5141 (2002 - 2012)
Deputy Director EDITE Doctoral School EDITE de Paris (ED 130) (2008 - 2012)
Telecom ParisTech Deputy Director (up to 1-03-2013)
Telecom ParisTech Dean for Research (up to 1-03-2013)

Invited Professor Wuhan University (2013-2017) - Signal Processing Lab., School of Electronic Information.

February 2022 - new !!!    Esthétique de la photographie numérique     What aesthetics may well mean? How have aesthetical judgements evolved in 25 centuries? Why do we say that a photo is beautiful? How useful may Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence be in assessing beauty of images? Are aesthetical assessments similar for different cultural civilisations?
Ouvrage available from ISTE either in e-book or on paper.
     - Table des matières
     -     Introduction

Book available from ISTE in French (9,90 € pdf, 62 € paper, a bargain !) - A second edition now available!

or in English, from Wiley (English text) - A second edition now available!

Recent Research:

From digital camera to computational photography
web site access to the work of Xiaoyi YANG (Ph'D with Yann Gousseau and Yohann Tendero): "A fast algorithm for occlusion detection and removal"
and the associated paper: IEEE 25th Int. Conf on Image Processing, ICIP 2018, pp 2505-2509
Satellite and Aerial imaging, Remote Sensing, image indexing and retrieval, image interpretaing, knowledge representation
Web site of the thesis of Weiying Zhao (under the supervision of Florence Tupin) : SAR time series despeckling and change detection
and one of his publications: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing January 2019, 1-14
Within IDS Department and IMAGES Group

Recent publications :

Papers in Journals

Proceedings of Conferences

Books an Book Chapters

Patents

Interview with Claire Mathieu and Serge Abiteboul from Société Informatique de France (SIF) :
"From holography to digital images" and
"The meaning of Image"
on the Binaire blog of LeMonde.fr

Useful links:

The unique BETI Library of image processing examples (not maintained but still working since 1989, thanks to Dominique Asselineau)

a link on my extra-professionnal activities page where you are invited to visit some topics with different cultural goals. Welcome

refreshed on : February 24 2022