Finally, the last paper contributed in this special issue is entitled 'Parallel embedded processor architecture for FPGA based image processing using parallel software skeletons' [20] authored by Hanen Chenini et al. This application belongs to the mid-level vision, the authors provide a rapid prototyping tool as a graphic programming environment (CubeGen).
For laboratory exercises, the courses offered at ARRSTC used expensive, proprietary minicomputer- and mainframe-based image processing software which required special graphics display hardware.
Normalized protein expression relative to actin was performed by densitometry using ImageJ, a public domain Java-based image processing software (available for download at http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/).
To evaluate islet size and vascularization, 20 images from each group were captured and images were analyzed with Image J software (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/ Java based Image Processing and Analysis provided by NIH).
The GPR imaging was designed from classical profiles with GPR processes and a customized, PC-based image-processing software.
The competing computers used different implementations of neural-network-based image-processing software to try and distinguish 10 classes of military and civilian vehicle represented in a public data set called MSTAR.
ImageJ is free, publically available, Java-based image-processing software designed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which allows the angle between two straight lines to be measured on multiple image formats.
The intensity of protein bands was quantified relative to the signals obtained for actin protein using Java-based image-processing software, ImageJ (W. Rasband (2005) National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/).
In SASBAC and LIBRO-1, MD was estimated using an area-based method from film mammograms with respectively Cumulus [ 10] and an automated algorithm based on the image processing software ImageJ that mimics Cumulus [ 14, 15].
This approach also includes a semi-automatic counting system, based on the freely available image processing software.
We present an image processing software suite, based on the Matlab environment, specifically designed to be used as a forensic tool by law enforcement laboratories in the analysis of crime scene videos and images.
