PIKS IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE PIKS contains a rich set of operators that perform manipulations of multidimensional images or of data objects extracted from images in order to enhance, restore, or assist in the extraction of information from images. This chapter presents a functional overview of the PIKS standard and a more detailed definition of a functional subset of the standard called PIKS Core. colour instead of color). For consistency with the PIKS standard, the British spelling convention has been adopted for this chapter | Digital Image Processing PIKS Inside Third Edition. William K. Pratt Copyright 2001 John Wiley Sons Inc. ISBNs 0-471-37407-5 Hardback 0-471-22132-5 Electronic 20 PIKS IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE PIKS contains a rich set of operators that perform manipulations of multidimensional images or of data objects extracted from images in order to enhance restore or assist in the extraction of information from images. This chapter presents a functional overview of the PIKS standard and a more detailed definition of a functional subset of the standard called PIKS Core. . PIKS FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW This section provides a brief functional overview of PIKS. References 1 to 6 provide further information. The PIKS documentation utilizes British spelling conventions which differ from American spelling conventions for some words . colour instead of color . For consistency with the PIKS standard the British spelling convention has been adopted for this chapter. . PIKS Imaging Model Figure describes the PIKS imaging model .Thesolid linesindicate dataflow and the dashed lines indicate control flow. The PIKS application program interface consists of four major parts 1. Data objects 2. Operators tools and utilities 3. System mechanisms 4. Import and export 643 644 PIKS IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE FIGURE . PIKS imaging model. The PIKS data objects include both image and image-related non-image data objects. The operators tools and utilities are functional elements that are used to process images or data objects extracted from images. The system mechanisms manage and control the processing. PIKS receives information from the application to invoke its system mechanisms operators tools and utilities and returns certain status and error information to the application. The import and export facility provides the means of accepting images and image-related data objects from an application and for returning processed images and image-related data objects to the application.
