nitin@ur-laser.uucp (Nitin Sampat) (07/11/85)
There has been a substantial interest in an Image processing group.
As many as 25 people have voted Yes. But I think the suggestions
of a few people that such discussions remain in net.graphics
until the traffic warrants a new group sounds logical. That brings up an
intersting question..at what point do you start separating computer
graphics from a field called image processing ?
Image processing in a strict sense can be defined as the manipulation
and analysis of images with the help of a computer to obtain a
desired result ? Is it reasonable to say, then, that graphics
deals only with manipulation while IP involves more analysis ?
Or is computer graphics a branch of image processing ?
Even eyeglasses do some image processing i.e. they manipulate
images to obtain a specific result. If image processing
is so encompassing, then should'nt this group be called net.image
and not net.graphics ?????
For all those wanting an Image processing group, let us first decide
what image processing really means...is it just one of those technical
jargons that we choose because it sounds "hi-tech", or are we going after
something specific ???
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