Henri Maître

Emeritus Professor at Telecom Paris, Institut Mines-Telecom

Image Processing, Pattern Recognition

Ethics and Integrity in Research

+33 1 75 31 96 81 - henri.maitre @ telecom-paris.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 Paris (alias "ENST", "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications", "Sup Télécom", "Telecom ParisTech") 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-Paris 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 Paris Deputy Director (up to 1-03-2013)
Telecom Paris Dean for Research (up to 1-03-2013)
Emeritus Professor at Télécom-Paris (2014 -)

Research Integrity Officer (RIS) of Institut Mines-Télécom (2022 - 2024)

Member Comittee for Research Ethics (CoER) of Institut Polytechnique de Paris (2023 - )

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

    Aesthetics in Digital Photography - june 2023
Automatically evaluating the aesthetic qualities of a photograph is a current challenge for artificial intelligence technologies, yet it is also an opportunity to open up new economic and social possibilities.
Aesthetics in Digital Photography presents theories developed over the last 25 centuries by philosophers and art critics, who have sometimes been governed by the objectivity of perception, and other times, of course, by the subjectivity of human judgement. It explores the advances that have been made in neuro-aesthetics and their current limitations.
In the field of photography, this book puts aesthetic hypotheses up against experimental verification, and then critically examines attempts to 'scientifically' measure this beauty. Special attention is paid to artificial intelligence techniques, taking advantage of machine learning methods and large databases.
Book available from Wiley e-book or paper.
Book available from ISTE e-book or paper.

    Esthétique de la photographie numérique - february 2022
The original text in French
Book available from ISTE e-book or paper.
     - Summary
     -     Introduction

Du Photon au pixel - l'appareil photographique numérique. - 2015 - revised 2016
The original book available from ISTE in French (e-book or paper).

From Photon to pixel - the digital camera handbook. 2017
This second edition of the fully revised and updated From Photon to Pixel presents essential elements in modern digital photographic devices. Our universal infatuation with photography profoundly affects its usage and development. While some sides of photographic culture remain wholly unchanged : art photography, journalistic and advertising photography, scientific photography, etc. new facets emerge: leisure or travel photography, everyday life photography, anecdotal, observational or unusual photography, and microcosm, or micro-community, photography with its culmination in the narcissistic selfie. These new forms combine an often simplified manner of photographing and modern means of instantaneous, remote and mass communication. This book does not extend into the sociological study of photography, instead it explains how the digital camera works by examining in detail each of the components that constitutes it to provide the reader with a preliminary guide into the inner workings of this device.
available from Wiley

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 : Sept 23 2023

	Aesthetics in Digital Photography - june 2023 Automatically evaluating the aesthetic qualities of a photograph is a current challenge for artificial intelligence technologies, yet it is also an opportunity to open up new economic and social possibilities. Aesthetics in Digital Photography presents theories developed over the last 25 centuries by philosophers and art critics, who have sometimes been governed by the objectivity of perception, and other times, of course, by the subjectivity of human judgement. It explores the advances that have been made in neuro-aesthetics and their current limitations. In the field of photography, this book puts aesthetic hypotheses up against experimental verification, and then critically examines attempts to 'scientifically' measure this beauty. Special attention is paid to artificial intelligence techniques, taking advantage of machine learning methods and large databases. Book available from Wiley e-book or paper. Book available from ISTE e-book or paper.
	Esthétique de la photographie numérique - february 2022 The original text in French Book available from ISTE e-book or paper. - Summary - Introduction
	Du Photon au pixel - l'appareil photographique numérique. - 2015 - revised 2016 The original book available from ISTE in French (e-book or paper).
	From Photon to pixel - the digital camera handbook. 2017 This second edition of the fully revised and updated From Photon to Pixel presents essential elements in modern digital photographic devices. Our universal infatuation with photography profoundly affects its usage and development. While some sides of photographic culture remain wholly unchanged : art photography, journalistic and advertising photography, scientific photography, etc. new facets emerge: leisure or travel photography, everyday life photography, anecdotal, observational or unusual photography, and microcosm, or micro-community, photography with its culmination in the narcissistic selfie. These new forms combine an often simplified manner of photographing and modern means of instantaneous, remote and mass communication. This book does not extend into the sociological study of photography, instead it explains how the digital camera works by examining in detail each of the components that constitutes it to provide the reader with a preliminary guide into the inner workings of this device. available from Wiley