In this presentation based on on-line demonstrations of algorithms and on the examination of several practical examples, I will reflect on the problem of modeling a detection task in images. I will place myself in the (very frequent) case where the detection task can not be formulated in a Bayesian framework or, rather equivalently that can not be solved by simultaneous learning of the model of the object and that of the background. (In the case where there are plenty of examples of the background and of the object to be detected, the neural networks provide a practical answer, but without explanatory power). Nevertheless for the detection without "learning", I will show that we can not avoid building a background model, or possibly learn it. But this will not require many examples.

Joint works with Axel Davy, Tristan Dagobert, Agnes Desolneux, Thibaud Ehret.[-]