Nathaniel Macon
ABSTRACT
To an increasing degree, equipment is available which is capable of converting photographic information into machine readable form or converting computer files into a visual image more or less resembling a half-tone picture, thus rendering photographic and other pictorial information available as data for processing by digital computers. Three major directions of effort have ensued. Necessary utility routines have been developed for managing I/O, file manipulation, and the implementation of languages to facilitate programming effort; analytical work toward character and pattern recognition, and toward parametric characterization of pictures has led to algorithms for accomplishing various sorts of mensuration and analysis; and, finally, algorithms have begun to emerge which are designed to change the appearance of a picture by modifying the file which represents it. A brief list of references to this work is given at the end of the paper, including an excellent review of the field by Lipkin and Rosenfeld.
- B S Lipkin A Rosenfeld Editors Picture processing and psychopictorics Academic Press New York 1970 Google Scholar
Digital Library
- A Rosenfeld Picture processing by computer Academic Press New York 1969Google Scholar
- I H Barkdoll B L McGlamery An on-line image processing system Proceedings of the ACM 23rd National Conference Washington DC August 1968 pp 705--716 Google ScholarDigital Library
- R Nathan Digital video-data handling NASA Tech Report No 32-877 Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California January 5 1966Google Scholar
- R H Selzer Digital computer processing of x-ray photographs NASA Tech Report No 32-1028 Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena California November 15 1966Google Scholar
Comments