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Logical Image Processing System

(An advanced image processing software package)

About LIPS version 3.0

Logical Image Processing System version 3.0 is a collection of a number of image processing tools developed using Visual C++ and it works in Windows environment. The algorithms pertaining to most of the routines in this package have been developed in a novel logico-mathematical framework called Cellular Logic Array Processing (CLAP). This nontraditional paradigm advocates pattern-directed Search And Replace (SAR) techniques, and so, it guarantees speed and precision.

Hardware required

LIPS version 3.0 will run on any IBM compatible PC which has at least 64 MB RAM and 4 GB hard disk. A high resolution color monitor is recommended for a good display. The operating system should be Windows 95 and above or Windows NT and XP.

Other platforms

LIPS version 4.0 runs on Silicon Graphics workstations powered by the operating system IRIX 6.1 and above. LIPS version 5.0 runs on SOLARIS OS based SUN workstations. LIPS version 5.0 would be ported to SUN SOLARIS environment under the SUN Partnership program and the version 5.0 would be released by August 31, 2007.

Potential users

Research laboratories would find this package to be very useful for field applications. Automated factories, Remote Sensing and GIS application centers, Vision based guided and autonomous mobile systems and robots manufacturers, Forest resources evaluation centers, Geological survey and mapping agencies, Radiologists and medical imaging experts, Image interpretation intelligence agencies, Nondestructive testing laboratories, Space surveillance agencies and many others could use this package very effectively. LIPS has been designed by a Professor of Signal Processing, and developed by experts in the field of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and so, academic institutions would immensely benefit from using this package. A help file is developed exclusively for teaching learning process.

Click here to download technical specifications of LIPS version 3.0

Technical details of LIPS

LIPS has three modules: (i) Image Processing, (ii) Pattern Recognition and Analysis and (iii) Pattern Generation. A digital image is treated here as a square array configuration of a cellular automaton and the operation on it as a cellular automaton parallel updating rule. Most of the algorithms used in this package have been developed based on this idea only. The term Pattern Recognition refers here to the detection of local features like straight lines, curves, break points, angles, textures in an image. The main tool used in developing the pattern recognition algorithms is Rajan Transform which is a fast algorithm similar to Decimation-In-Frequency FFT algorithm. Pattern generation is carried out using complex mathematical formulas