berger@datacube.UUCP (08/01/85)
What is Image-Calc anyway? I've seen some other references and am wondering what it is and does and how we might get it. We are manufacturing a line of high-powered low-cost image processing boards for the VME bus. (Things like real time 3x3 convolution boards, 3x3 systolic neighborhood area processors that are cascadable for larger neighborhoods, real-time histogram and feature list extraction, etc). The architecture allows the user to trade off boards for speed / performance. It is also an open architecture so designers can easily add their own custom hardware and not worry about digitizers, frame stores, basic signal processing (we even offer a prototype board with all the hooks for VME and our own digital video interconnect. We need a way to separate the algorithms from the hardware. Looking for image processing standards / languages. Might Image-Calc be a possiblity? What other image processing "languages" are out there? Bob Berger Datacube Inc. 4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960 617-535-6644 ihnp4!datacube!berger ima!inmet!mirror!datacube!berger decvax!cca!mirror!datacube!berger decvax!genrad!wjh12!mirror!datacube!berger {mit-eddie,cyb0vax}!mirror!datacube!berger
connolly@steinmetz.UUCP (C. Ian Connolly) (08/05/85)
> > What is Image-Calc anyway? I've seen some other references and am > wondering what it is and does and how we might get it. > > Bob Berger > > Datacube Inc. 4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960 617-535-6644 Image-Calc is a product of SRI. It was written by Dr. Lynn Quam for Symbolics Lisp Machines. It provides an *excellent* environment for experimenting with and developing machine vision algorithms. It essentially provides a workbench for manipulating images. We found it very easy to add our own image format to the ensemble of formats which Image-Calc knows about. We have also found it very easy to add new image-processing functions. I believe that our license was $25,000. Contact SRI for the details. -- C. Ian Connolly, WA2IFI - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly , , ARPANET: connolly@ge-crd An rud a bhionn, bionn.