<title>Image algebra algorithm development environment</title>

Abstract

The Image Algebra Algorithm Development Environment provides the user with a portable, flexible, and comprehensive environment for the development and exercise of computer vision algorithms. It includes a powerful set of tools which provides the user with specific algorithmic capabilities that are tied together to form an environment through the use of common file formats, programming language and an underlying environment manager. The environmental makes use of the Image Algebra Ada language, translator, and run-time capability. Its major components include two X Window System based tools: one provides an image display and analysis capability, and the other provides a graphical interface for defining invariant image algebra templates. As well as supporting the development of programs using translators, compilers and libraries of routines, the Algorithm Development Environment includes an Image Algebra Ada Interpreter that allows the user to interactively developed algorithms in a rapid prototyping environment. This paper gives an overview of the various components of the Algorithm Development Environment.