CinePaint for Image Processing Research
- CinePaint is a means to engage the movie
industry with university research.
Studios are by nature competitive and
often secretive. And, studios have their own internal research
teams. They are too busy with production to care what academia
has to offer. There's an old saying in Hollywood, "Don't
call us. We'll call you." Adding an interesting feature
based on university research to CinePaint is an opportunity for
a research team or scientist to get noticed by the studios.
- CinePaint asks that researchers contribute
code they already have.
Nobody expects researchers to work on
CinePaint for free. Existing research development was already
funded somehow. Give what you want to give to CinePaint. It can
be last year's research.
- CinePaint is a way to get research used,
to help prove its validity.
If that research had government funding
then having wider dissemination and success stories can help
with securing future government funding.
- CinePaint can help integrate university-developed
code for you for free.
You don't have to retask your grad student
for the CinePaint integration effort. Free assistance from CinePaint
developers can give leverage to university projects, enabling
university research to gain broader dissemination than its own
resources can achieve alone.
- CinePaint itself is a platform for university
research, a tool researchers can use themselves.
Scientists should use CinePaint in situations
where it is a superior tool for their needs over Photoshop or
Matlab.
- CinePaint isn't limited to the motion picture
industry.
It is useful in astronomy, medical imaging,
radar, IR, sonar, visualization, image processing, and other
fields.
- CinePaint as an open platform for university
collaboration.
Researchers can work independently but
use algorithms together as CinePaint plug-ins instead of as separate
stand-alone programs.
- You can modify CinePaint itself because it
is open source.
Being able to add or modify features is
a key advantage of CinePaint over proprietary tools.
- CinePaint is free.
That means all your students can afford
it. Especially in conjunction with Linux (also free), CinePaint
can cut your research expenses -- enable you to put more of your
budget to work supporting your people instead of your machines.
- CinePaint is multi-platform.
Runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Irix,
Alpha, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Intel IA-64, IBM S390, and HP-UX.
- The CinePaint Digital Film Library enables
working on real motion picture data.
Motion picture 2k images are very useful
for research in scratch removal and other image processing tasks.
Historically, researchers have had to resort to testing with
phony data because real movie frames are difficult to acquire.
Questions to rower@movieeditor.com
Created October 31, 2003. Updated
October 31, 2003.