Jury de soutenance : DR, DHOME Michel, President PR, MIGUET Serge, Rapporteur MCF-HDR, HOUZET Dominique, Rapporteur PR, QUILLIOT Alain, Examinateur PR, PAINDAVOINE Michel, Examinateur PR, DERUTIN Jean-Pierre, Directeur de these MCF-HDR, SEROT Jocelyn, Co-directeur de theseOur work deals with parallel programming environments which are developed in order to help the user of ''Multiple Instruction stream Multiple Data stream - Distributed Memory'' (MIMD-DM) computers to easily program such a machine. Image processing is our target application field. The SKiPPER (SKeleton-based Parallel Programming EnviRonment) toolset was developed for this purpose. It is designed to address the problem of rapid prototyping of image processing applications, ...