Introduction to the IUE

Saturday Nov. 18, Biltmore Hotel 10am-6pm.
(Prior to the IEEE International Symposium on Computer Vision)



BACKGROUND:

The Image Understanding Environment (IUE) is an object-oriented C++ system designed to support computer vision research. The system design is extensive, covering: traditional image processing issues, image features, 2D and 3D object modeling, coordinate systems/transforms, sensors and sensor modeling. The specification of IUE classes has been publicly available for approximately 2 years (it is still being revised) and currently contains over 700 classes.

The current IUE development, a multi-million dollar multi-year effort, is being funded by ARPA. There is substantial interaction outside the ARPA community, including interactions with representative committees from Europe and Japan.

The IUE implementation plan calls for spiraling out from a central core of components, approximately 250-300 IU classes plus support classes. A beta-test version of this core will will be release around the time of the IEEE CVS. (The current implementation effort continues until Fall 96).

PURPOSE:

This day of tutorial/demonstrations will have 6 main components: Introduce the IUE and its key components and the IUE development plans. Review the IUE design and IUE documentation Detailed discussion of components in the beta-release including reviewing example programs. Using/developing IUE programs. Overview of the IUE's GUI and Interactions with Khorus's GUI. Review of the IUE data-exchange mechanism, and its use with non-IUE systems Obtaining and installing the (free) releases of the IUE.

This tutorial will presume some familiarity with C++ (g++), Unix and X-windows. General familiarity with Khorus will be presumed for some topics.

COST: 

		   Regular  Student

   Before Oct 23,    30$     20$ (payable by check)
   Late/On-site      35$     35$ (payable by check, or cash) 
                                 (NO credit cards)
The tutorial is limited to the first 40 registrants. The tutorial will have a only few handouts since almost everything you'd want will be availible online. The fees cover the cost of coffee breaks and Audio/Video equipment.

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION:

The IUE will be freely distributed (source code), and is build on public tools such as GNU's g++, X-windows, etc. The initial release will be for SunOs, with at least partial support for Solaris, Linux and SGI systems.

The IUE is capable of exchanging data with Khrous and KBVison. It allows IUE tasks to be used directly from the Cantata interface and mixed with Khorous tasks.

For more on the tutorial contact Terry Boult, tboult@eecs.lehigh.edu For more information on the IUE see http://www.aai.com/AAI/IUE/IUE.html or http://www.eecs.lehigh.edu/AAI/IUE/IUE.html(unofficial mirror).

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