The GPI does research on image and video processing for representing, coding, indexing and analysing visual content. The expertise of the group working on morphology and segmentation has been the basis for contributions to ISO standards MPEG-4 and MPEG-7. Research on image analysis has allowed it to participate in European projects since 1992, including the programs RACE (Morpheco, coord.), ACTS (MAVT, MoMuSys, Vidas) and IST (Diceman, Hypermedia, INTERFACE, ADViSOR, MASCOT, FAETHON), the networks of excellence SCHEMA, SIMILAR and MUSCLE and the integrated FP6 and FP7 projects CHIL and FASCINATE, respectively.