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CinePaint for Image Processing Research

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. CinePaint is multi-platform.
    Runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Irix, Alpha, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Intel IA-64, IBM S390, and HP-UX.
  11. 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.