CONCEPT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN OBJECT-ORIENTED FRAMEWORK FOR IMAGE-PROCESSING

This paper describes the concept of an Iconic Kernel System which provides a general software toolbox allowing image processing algorithms to be implemented independently of computer hardware and operating systems. Following a strict object-oriented design philosophy, it contains a basic set of data structures and operations from which the application-specific software environments can be built. Special attention has been paid to the incorporation of non-object-oriented software into object-oriented environments and to the integration of communication objects for the integration of distributed system components and user interface systems. The concept has been implemented in a DEC-VAX/VMS environment as a working prototype using several programming languages.