1. Editorial

   • Oliver Avaro
   • Gérard Eude

   EditorialNotes Pages: 162 - 163

2. Shape representation and coding of visual objets in multimedia applications — An overview

   • Corinne Le Buhan Jordan
   • Sushil Bhattacharjee
   • Touradj Ebrahimi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 164 - 178

3. Texture coding on arbitrarily shaped image segments : transform methods*

   • Ioana Donescu
   • Thomas Sikora
   • Homer Chen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 191

4. Time-invariant and time-varying multirate filter banks : application to image coding

   • Christine Guillemot
   • Patrick Rault
   • Patrice Onno

   OriginalPaper Pages: 192 - 218

5. Fractal image coding - achievements and prospects

   • Dan C. Popescu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 228

6. Towards 3-D model-based video coding

   • Olivier Soligon
   • Alain LE MehautÉ
   • Christian Roux

   OriginalPaper Pages: 229 - 241

7. Towards a unitary formulation for invariant image description: application to image coding

   • Faouzi Ghorbel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 242 - 260

8. Résumés de thèse

   • Roxana Ojeda
   • Jian Liang
   • Souâd Taouil-Traverson

   Abstract Pages: 261 - 262