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Acknowledgments
I thank Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, specically the School of Engineering
and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, for their support in this
endeavor. I also thank all the students who have taken my imaging courses and provided
valuable feedback regarding the learning and teaching of digital image processing and
analysis.
The initial version of the CVIPtools software was developed primarily by myself and a
few graduate students: Gregory Hance, Arve Kjoelen, Kun Luo, Mark Zuke, and Yansheng
Wei; without their hard work and dedication the foundation that was built upon for this
new version would not be solid. The next major Windows
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version of CVIPtools was devel-
oped primarily by myself and Iris Cheng, Xiaohe Chen, Dejun Zhang, and Huashi Ding.
Additional students who contributed were Husain Kagalwalla and Sushma Gouravaram.
The current version of CVIPtools was initially developed by Patrick Solt and Evan Bian.
The work was completed by Patrick Solt as the project manager, with Jhansi Akkineni,
Mouinika Mamidi, Pelin Guvenc, Serkan Kefel, and Hari Krishna Akkineni providing
programming support. Jhansi Akkineni served as project coordinator and helped Patrick
with management duties.
Patrick Solt deserves special credit for helping to coordinate and manage the CVIPtools
for Windows project. He dedicated a major amount of his time to the development of the
CVIPtools software, and helped us greatly in project organization and in solving many
problems. Overall, Patrick’s contributions to this project have been substantial, and his
extra efforts deserve special recognition. Jhansi Akkineni’s efforts also deserve special
recognition. Her dedication to the project and the help she provided to others working on
the project were substantial. Iris Cheng, who was the primary contributor on the original
Windows version of CVIPtools, also deserves special recognition for her continued sup-
port as a consultant on the project.
The Computer Vision and Image Processing Algorithm Test and Analysis Tool, CVIP-
ATAT, underwent many changes before its release with this book. The initial development
was provided by Sid Smith and Jeremy Wood. Geer Shaung and Evan Bian provided sub-
stantial new developments for this tool, which helped to make it more practical for its use
with CVIPtools. Further development was required to get it into its current form, which
was completed, tested, and utilized in projects by Pelin Guvenc. The Computer Vision
and Image Processing Feature Extraction and Pattern Classication Tool, CVIP-FEPC, was
created and developed by Patrick Solt, further developed by Jesse Phelps, and partially
funded by the Long Island Veterinary Specialists.
In small but important parts of CVIPtools public domain software was used, and
kudos to those who provided it: Jef Pokanzer’s pbmplus, Sam Lefer’s TIFF library, Paul
Heckbert’s Graphics Gems, the Independent JPEG Group’s software, Yuval Fisher’s fractal
code, and the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station’s code for texture features.
I’d like to thank those who contributed photographs and images: Mark Zuke, Mike
Wilson, Tony Berke, George Dean, Sara Sawyer, Sue Eder, Jeff Zuke, Bill White, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, and MIT. H. Kipsang Choge deserves
credit for helping out with the gures, especially for Chapters 2 and 5, and I thank him
for this work. Thanks also to David, Robin, Michael, Jeanie, Jeff, Mom, Greg, Glicer, Gaby,
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