SIUE Computer Vision and Image Processing Laboratory
The Computer Vision and Image Processing Laboratory (CVIP Lab) is a state-of-the-art facility which has 13 computer/imaging stations, as well as an LCD projector, scanners, cameras and controlled lighting image digitizing stations.
A major research tool of the CVIP Lab is CVIPtools, a 350,000+ line program that offers the experienced and new user alike the opportunity to experiment with computer imaging in an easy-to-use GUI-based environment. Active research contributes to the excellence of the CVIPtools program, which is under continuing development at SIUE.
Research and development in the CVIP Lab:
- CVIPtools development
- Analysis of thermographic veterinary images
- Automated defect detection in microdisplay chips
- Automated inspection and grading of lumber bundles
- Computer-aided diagnosis system for pigmented skin lesions
- Skin tumor image classification using texture and relative color
- Color image segmentation algorithm development
- Wavelet/vector quantization image compression
- Deformable templates applied to skin tumor border finding
- Helicopter image enhancement
- High-speed film image enhancement
- New Border Images
Research funded by Long Island Veterinary Specialists, Krewson Reaching Equipment Company, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, the National Institutes of Health, Camber Corporation, System Dynamics International, Stoecker & Associates, Stealth Technologies, the Department of Defense, Westar Corporation, River City Software.
Courses in CVIP at SIUE:
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Last update September 2006