STRIP(ID:7291/str030)

NBS image manipulation system 

for Standard Taped Routines for Image Processing

Image processing system at NBS
Related languages
STRIP => STRIP-2   Built on
References:
  • Moore, G. A., "Design for a Preferred Language for the Command of Automatic Analyses of Micrographs," unpublished NBS Report (Oct 1, 1964) view details
  • Huang, TS Review of Moore 1969 view details Abstract: The author describes in some detail a micrograph print scanner and an image analysis computer program constructed and written at NBS for analyzing micrographs. The scanner uses a drum and has a resolution of 150 lines/in. The output signal is digitized and recorded on magnetic tapes using 14 brightness levels for each sample. The magnetic tapes then serve as the input to a general-purpose digital computer.

    The image-analysis computer program, called STRIP, includes a number of subroutines for doing logical (Boolean) operations on corresponding points of two binary images or on neighboring points within a single binary image. In particular, one can do outlining and noisecleaning in a binary image, find the overlap between two binary images, etc.

    To illustrate the application of the scanner and the computer program, an example is given in which micrographs of niobium tin superconductor wire are analyzed, resulting in the establishment of a model of the growth process of the voids inside the wire.

    It might be mentioned that computer languages similar to STRIP have been developed by various workers in image processing, e.g., the PAX language written at the University of Illinois.

          in ACM Computing Reviews 10(08) August 1969 view details
  • Moore, George A. "Automatic scanning and computer processes for the quantitative analysis of micrographs and equivalent subjects" pp275-326 view details
          in Rosenfeld et al (eds) "Pictorial pattern recognition" Thompson Washington DC 1969 view details