LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL JEAN-CHRISTOPHE OLIVO is currently a staff research scientist in the Cell Biophysics Programme at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany where he is in charge of developing image processing methods for biological image analysis. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Optical Science and Signal Processing, and a Ph.D. degree in Optical Science, both from the Institut d'Optique Theorique et Appliquee, University of Paris-Orsay, France. He is a member of SPIE and IEEE. His research interests are in image processing and computer vision with special emphasis in automatic segmentation, multiresolution processing and movement. LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL