Image file formats

About: Image file formats is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10349 publications have been published within this topic receiving 102407 citations.

Computer-readable recorded medium on which image file is recorded, device for producing the recorded medium, medium on which image file creating program is recorded, device for transmitting image file, device for processing image file, and medium on which image file processing program is recorded

Abstract: An object of the invention is to enable a provider who provides an image file to provide a user of the image file reliably with information that the provider desires to provide. Another object of the invention is to enable a provider who provides an image file to provide a user on the basis of one image file reliably with a plurality of sets of information that the provider desires to provide. A still another object of the invention is to make it possible to conduct investigation into e.g. the access made by a user relatively easily. The objects are achieved by a computer-readable recorded medium on which an image file is recorded, characterized in that in a data stream of the image file, identification information specific to the image file, a pointer or pointers of one or more sets of information, an index of a menu item corresponding to the image file, or/and the entity of a predetermined program are recorded.

File management of digital images using the names of people identified in the images

Abstract: A method and apparatus for organizing digital images that contain a persons face is disclosed. A database of known faces allows the faces in the images to be identified. The names of the people identified in the image are used in naming the image files and in naming the path to the image files.

Image storage method and apparatus

Abstract: A plurality of images and a feature of each of these images are stored in one image file. An attribute information area stores attribute information necessary to read out and display the images stored in the image file. A feature data area continuously stores features of the images stored in the image file. An image data area continuously stores image data of the images stored in the image file. Since one image file has the attribute information, the feature data area continuously storing the features of all images, and the image data area continuously storing all images, high-speed access to the image data and simple management of the image data are realized.

Automatic data organization, storage, and analysis of camera trap pictures

Abstract: Networks of automatic cameras are producing many thousands of images over modest time periods. For example, 35 cameras at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, USA have produced more than 1.9m useful images since June, 2009. A US Fish and Wildlife monitoring program is producing about 30,000 images per week. Although image file retrieval and storage is trivial, data entry and analysis are both time consuming and error prone since data is most often entered by hand from a keyboard into a spreadsheet. Our objectives were to increase data entry speed while minimizing data entry errors, easily run data analysis, and enable data from multiple locations to be concatenated and analyzed as a single data set. These objectives are achieved by eliminating the task of hand data entry via a keyboard, and managing user interactions with image file data through the use of a suite of open software tools. Error-checking is also automatic. Here we update the methodology described in Harris et al. (2010) by providing a step-by step guide for automatic camera trap data storage and analysis without entering data by hand from a keyboard. This methodology is already in use and is benefiting from an established user community. The programs are available free on http://www.smallcats.org/CTA-executables.html. Key words : Automatic data organization; analysis; camera trap

Image processing software system having configurable communication pipelines

Abstract: A method and software system for processing images having reconfigurable communication pipelines. The system includes an image processor that instantiates a film module and dynamically creates an image module for each image to be processed. The image processor couples each image module to the film module by a unique communication pipeline according to imaging commands received from an input imaging device. The present invention is applicable to the general field of image processing and may be implemented in any general image output device. In one embodiment, the software system is embedded in a discrete continuous tone laser imager that is directly connected to one or more medical imaging modalities. In another embodiment, the laser imager is directly connected to a network of medical imaging modalities. In yet another embodiment, the software system is executed by an intermediate computer that interfaces an output imaging device to a plurality of networked medical imaging modalities. Advantages of the present invention include the dynamic creation of an image processing system, thereby effecting great flexibility. In this manner, the system is easily reconfigurable and therefore suitable to network environments requiring a variety of image formats. Furthermore, the system does not rely on specialized hardware or virtual memory which greatly increase the cost of the device.