Z-IMAGE: An Interactive Image Analysis Package
for Unix Workstations
Overview:
- Z-IMAGE is an interactive image analysis package being developed by scientists in
the CSIRO Mathematics and Information Sciences.
- It is designed for researchers working in a Unix environment who have some understanding
of the mathematics of image analysis and processing.
- It has a large repertoire of fundamental processing functions, which should be seen as
providing the building blocks for testing and implementing new and more sophisticated
image processing algorithms.
Features:
- Z-IMAGE is an interactive interpreter with an ``equation-like'' language
reminiscent of the statistical package S. However, because it is specifically
designed to handle image data, it processes such data more efficiently and quickly than S
does.
- Special features of Z-IMAGE include:
- easy display of multiple images and histograms using the X windowing system, using a
variety of colour maps and allowing interactive contrast stretching;
- image construction functions; arithmetic and logical operations; statistical functions;
two-dimensional fast Fourier transform;
- neighbourhood filters, with the ability to choose the filter size and to easily create
new filters;
- many sophisticated morphological operators, with the capacity to accept an arbitrary
structuring element;
- colour and multi-component image operations;
- command and menu-style structure;
- nesting of commands;
- ability to add new functions.
- The library of functions
Single Platform Pricing for Research and Academic Institutions as of
August 2001:
(For Z-IMAGE
and SZ-IMAGE, excluding GST).
Single Server Network Licence Prices
| Number of simultaneous users |
Research and Academic Institutions
(Research Licence) |
| 1 |
2,000 |
| 2-4 |
3,000 |
| 5-8 |
4,000 |
| 9-16 |
6,000 |
Multiple Platform Pricing for Research and Academic Institutions:
Multiply the single platform price by the
following factors
| Number of different platforms |
Multiplier |
| 2 |
1.25 |
| 3 |
1.5 |
| 4 |
1.75 |
- Prices in Australian $.
- Prices subject to change without notice.
- Please note:
- User means a terminal for entry of information and display or printing of
information, such terminal being serviced on a time-sharing basis by a designated CPU
running Z-IMAGE or SZ-IMAGE.
- The above definition implies that a diskless (or dataless) workstation need not be
licensed in its own right, but can be counted as a user on the licenced server.
- Software includes a copy of the binary code on an
appropriate medium and the manuals.
- There is no maintenance fee. A modest fee will be charged to the user for updates.
Interested? Well, contact ...
Dr Mark Berman, CSIRO CMIS, Locked
Bag 17,
North Ryde NSW 2113 AUSTRALIA;
email: Mark.Berman@csiro.au
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