Christine Graffigne (born 1959) is a French applied mathematician. She is known for her pioneering research on Markov random fields for

image analysis Image analysis or imagery analysis is the extraction of meaningful information from images; mainly from digital images by means of digital image processing techniques. Image analysis tasks can be as simple as reading bar coded tags or as sophi ...

, the topic of her 1986 invited address (joint with Stuart Geman) to the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

Education and career

Graffigne earned a double Ph.D., in 1986 from

Paris-Sud University Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, i ...

with the dissertation ''Applications des statistiques au traitement d'images'' supervised by Dominique Picard, and in 1987 from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

with the dissertation ''Experiments In Texture Analysis And Segmentation'' supervised by Geman. She is a professor in the MAP5 (Applied Mathematics at Paris 5) Laboratory, formerly at

Paris Descartes University Paris Descartes University (french: Université Paris 5 René Descartes, links=no), also known as Paris V, was a French public university located in Paris. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 ...

and now part of the University of Paris. At Paris Descartes University, she directed the Information Technology and Mathematics Training and Research Unit (UFR de Mathématiques et Informatique) until 2019, when she was succeeded in this position by David Janiszek.

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