Towards a unified IU environment: coordination of existing IU tools with the IUE

Progress in the field of computer vision/image understanding (IU) has long been hampered by the lack of standard software environments for research and application development. The Image Understanding Environment (IUE) is being implemented to provide a freely-distributed standard software environment that is appropriate for a wide range of research and development activities. Nevertheless, we recognize that the IUE will not serve everyone´s individual needs and that conversion to the IUE could be an expensive process for many sites. Therefore, we are investing significant effort to make the IUE an open environment that can work in coordination with existing IU systems and tools. This paper introduces the work being performed at Amerinex AI to address the processing and data representation factors involved in this coordination