  This last document is showing the gradual introduction of hierarchical
modeling techniques in image analysis. The first chapter is dealing with the
first works carried out in the field of industrial applications of pattern
recognition. The second chapter is focusing on the usage of these techniques in
satellite imagery and on the development of a satellite data archiving system
in the aim of using it in digital geography. The third chapter is about face
recognition based on planar image analysis and about the recognition of
partially hidden patterns. The present publication is ending with the
description of a future system of self-descriptive coding of still or moving
pictures in relation with the current video coding standards. As in the
previous documents, it will be found in annex algorithms targeted on image
analysis according two complementary approaches: - boundary-based approach for
the industrial applications of artificial vision; - region-based approach for
satellite image analysis.
