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@TECHREPORT{AICPub640:1983,
  AUTHOR={Hanson, Andrew J.},
  TITLE={Overview Of The Image Understanding Testbed},
  ADDRESS={333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025},
  INSTITUTION={AI Center, SRI International},
  MONTH={Oct},
  NUMBER={310},
  YEAR={1983},
  ABSTRACT={The Image Understanding Testbed is a system of hardware and software
     that is designed to facilitate the integration, testing, and evaluation of
     implemented research concepts in machine vision. The system was developed by
     the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International under the joint sponsorship
     of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Defense Mapping
     Agency (DMA). The primary purpose of the Image Understanding (IU) Testbed is
     to provide a means for transferring technology from the DARPA-sponsored IU
     research program to DMA and other organizations in the defense community. The
     approach taken to achieve this purpose has two components: 
 em The establishment
     of a uniform environment that will be as compatible as possible with the environments
     of research centers at universities participating in the IU program. Thus,
     organizations obtaining copies of the testbed can receive new results of ongoing
     research as they become available. em The acquisition, integration, testing,
     and evaluation of selected scene analysis techniques that represent mature
     examples of generic areas of research activity. These contributions from IU
     program participants will allow organizations with testbed copies to immediately
     begin investigating potential applications of IU technology to problems in
     automated cartography and other areas of scene analysis. 
 An important
     component of the DARPA IU research program is the development of image-understanding
     techniques that could be applied to automated cartography and military image
     interpretation tasks; this work forms the principal focus of the testbed project.
     A number of computer modules developed by participants in the IU program have
     been transported to the uniform testbed environment as a first step in the
     technology transfer process. These include systems written in UNIX C, MAINSAIL,
     and FRANZ LISP. Capabilities of the computer programs include segmentation,
     linear feature delineation, shape detection, stereo reconstruction, and rule-based
     recognition of classes of three-dimensional objects.}
}