When Statistical Physics Meets Image Processing

In this paper we review the contribution of Evgueny (Eugène for the French community) Pechersky to image processing. Eugène discovered image processing as he was visiting Telecom Paris in 1994. During his stay at Telecom Paris and later on, during some visits and collaboration at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, his work was focused on designing multi-body interaction models to overcome the limits of the well known Ising and Potts model for image processing applications. Notably, the derived models were applied to different applications both in remote sensing and biomedical images. In this paper we summarize Eugène’s contribution to the so-called Bayesian approach in image processing.