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(1998), "Internet page", Sensor Review, Vol. 18 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr.1998.08718cag.001

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http://www.ieee.org/society/sp/IEEE Signal Processing Society

Part of the IEEE's larger Web presence, the Signal Processing Society's areas of interest are "the theory and application of filtering, coding, transmitting, estimating, detecting, analyzing, recognizing, synthesizing, recording, and reproducing signals by digital or analog devices or techniques". The term signal encompasses all interpretations of the word including audio, video and image amongst the others. The pages themselves contain information concerning the society including its organizational and procedural material, in addition to items of interest to external browsers. There are details of the society's publications (though these are subscription based) and CD-ROM based conference proceedings in addition to PostScript-based technical articles, coming titles and conference information. However, it is as the joint sponsor of the Signal Processing Information Base (SPIB) that the society delivers its most useful Web-based service (see below), the society's site linking directly into the pages of the SPIB.

http://spib.rice.edu/spib/Signal Processing Information Base (SPIB)

The Signal Processing Information Base (SPIB) is a project sponsored by the Signal Processing Society and the National Science Foundation. SPIB contains information repositories of data, papers, software, newsgroups, bibliographies, links to other repositories, and addresses, all of which are relevant to signal processing research and development. Part of SPIB, the derivatively titled Signal Processing url LIBrary (SPLIB) gives a large number of links into signal processing Websites, of which image processing forms a separate section. Links are grouped under a number of headings such as application types, areas of technology, organisations and events. A page of exhibitors from the ICASSP gives a set of links into commercial concerns in addition to the page of educational resources. A searchable address book, links into searching the IEEE transactions, and a substantial bibliography all enhance the information available at the site. There is a Usenet archive for dsp, compression and speech processing and a number of papers available on line and available in PostScript format.

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1158/ImageProcessing-e.htmlComputer Vision and Image Processing

An impressive selection of links and resources to do with computer vision and image processing. The site links into every imaginable area of the subject, with connections to FAQs and tutorials, bibliographies, vision based journals and Usenet archives. There are sites of image databases for projects and links into the world's most prominent research organisations active in the field. Further listings cover computer graphics resources, software (including summaries of image processing tool boxes), some links into 3D image reconstruction sites, neural networks, virtual reality and journals. Unfortunately like many sites of this nature, it has not been updated recently, giving rise to a number of non-functional links. However, with little perseverance material for most areas of interest can be found.

http://www.precisionimages.com/Precision Digital Images

Precision Digital Images' Website is a more useful commercial undertaking, offering an online research tool and reference site for the latest news in the image capture and DSP image processing industry. A good selection of links sorted by category such as industrial, medical and shareware tools, journals and mailing lists is posted at the site, in addition to their own technical briefings on both image capture and processing. There is a glossary of image processing terms. The company's image capture and processing products, based largely on Texas Instruments' dsp components are explained, and there is access to an ftp site for software upgrades and downloads and a discussion forum centred on TI's C80 dsp. There is a what's new section and the usual company contact information. A well designed site with plenty of useful information.

http://www.inforamp.net/~poynton/Charles Poynton's Homepage

An independent video engineer, Charles Poynton maintains his own Webpage which acts as an Internet resource for video technology. There are extracts of his bookA Technical Introduction to Digital Video, information about video colour and gamma correction in particular. There are published articles on video, HDTV, colour reproduction and video engineeringinformation concerning technical aspects of video. He also maintains links to consumer videoresources on the Internet, links to digital filter design packages and useful sites concerning FrameMaker software and Macintosh computers.

http://www.vrl.com/Imaging/index.htmlVisioneering Research Laboratory, Inc. (VRL) ­ The Imaging Machine

VRL provides imaging support to its customers through prototyping, consulting, and product sales particularly in imaging metrology for the IC industry. Their Website contains company and product information, and a page of links to Web image-based resources. What sets the site apart, however, is that VRL have made available the utilities from the imaging package Image Magick. The site will download an image via ftp, and then return it "processed" free of charge. There is a choice of filters, transforms and analysis tools that can be applied in addition to a number of animation facilities. A further page shows the accolades awarded to the site.