During the past four years, most of our research activities have been focused on image but also video and 3-D objects processing for security applications (watermarking and biometrics) and communications (talking heads, interfaces), with a special emphasis on facial images. More about our work can be found at http://www.eurecom.fr/~image. Our research activities are conducted with the backing of several industrials, in particular France Telecom Research and STMicroelectronics. For the past few years, we have had a regular scientific collaboration on Fractal Image Coding, Watermarking and Biometrics with the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in particular with Prof. K. Ros
