Description:
On the Internet, one can access and search image banks featuring different types of collections and different types of information processing systems. It is now possible to include them in courses aiming at building bridges between information processing techniques and the study of still images. Every site featured in this article is first commented, some theoretical principles are suggested with a view to devising exercises about the analysis, description and indexing of still images ; then general observations are made about how an information processing perspective can help students deal with the critical analysis of still images.