[net.ai] Computer Vision, Pattern Rec

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
	
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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.
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