[Portugal] Novo software para interpretação automática de imagens

[Giovanni Manghi]

http://www.lvc.ele.puc-rio.br/projects/interimage/

"The InterImage system is a knowledge based framework for Automatic
Image Interpretation. InterImage is an extension of an earlier project
called GeoAIDA developed by the Insitut für Informationsverarbeitung -
Leibniz Universität Hannover. The interpretation strategy implemented by
the system is based on a knowledge model defined by the user, structured
as a semantic network. The nodes of the network represent concepts,
classes of image objects expected to be found in a scene. Specialized
image processing operators (external from the system's core) can be
attached to the system, which controls their execution. The instances of
the concepts found by the operators are then judged by the system, based
on rules defined by the user. 

The InteImage environment will permit the construction of automatic
image interpretation systems, through the modeling of the knowledge by
the specialist. Some functionalities that the system will provide are: 


      * Extraction of objects/patterns in images and calculation of
        spectral, geometric, topological and texture properties;
      * Modeling of explicit knowledge based on specialist experience
        for image interpretation through fuzzy rules, fuzzy sets and a
        semantic net; and
      * Processing and visualization of the results for the image
        interpretation.

Until now the applications implemented using the system have dealt with
Remote Sensing Image Data (Satellite or Aerial Images), but there are no
particular restrictions over the type of images that can be processed by
the system. 

InterImage is part of an International Scientific Cooperation Project
leaded by the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and the
Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE). Although the system
is already operational, and has been tested in various applications,
many improvements have been planned, some of which currently being
implemented."