From: sw@mdavcr.mda.ca (Scott Wood)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: RFD for new IMAGE PROCESSING newsgroup
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:38:56 GMT
Organization: MacDonald Dettwiler, 13800 Commerce Parkway, Richmond, BC, Canada  V6V 2J3

newberry@astro.as.arizona.edu (Mike Newberry) writes:
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:                          
: 			 REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION
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: 		       on creating a newsgroup for
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:                             IMAGE PROCESSING
: 			    
: 
: 
:   1) Determine if there is sufficient interest to warrant calling for a
:      vote to create the proposed group.

Count me in for this group. Image processing is a technique used in many
disciplines, and right now there is no one group where image processing is
being discussed. Although comp.graphics may claim image processing in
its domain, image processing is also discussed in comp.dsp,
comp.infosystems.gis, comp.graphics.visualization, and sci.astro (just
to name a few that I read). A single newsgroup which covers image processing 
will help not only to focus expertise in one place, but also (hopefully)
will expose us to disciplines that we aren't familiar with.

:   2) Select a name for the group.

It shouldn't be in comp.graphics.*, for the reasons that others have explained. 
I also don't think it should be in comp.dsp.*, although I don't have as
strong a feeling about that. 

:   3) Develop a newsgroup charter.

Just recently, the IEEE started a new journal called the IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing. In the first issue (Jan 1992) they
printed a list of their image processing categories. I think this list
gives a pretty good idea of what the scope of an image processing group
should be. I've typed it in at the end of this article.

:   4) Decide whether the group should be moderated and, if so, select a
:      moderator.

I say unmoderated (at least to start with).

:   5) Decide on what computer the newsgroup should reside.

What's this referring to? an archive for the newsgroup?



IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, EDICS LIST (whatever EDICS means):

1 Image Processing
  1.1  Coding
  1.2  Filtering
  1.3  Enhancement
  1.4  Restoration
  1.5  Segmentation
  1.6  Multiresolution Processing
  1.7  Multispectral Processing
  1.8  Image Representation
  1.9  Image Analysis
  1.10 Interpolation and Spatial Transformations
  1.11 Motion Detection and Estimation
  1.12 Image Sequence Processing
  1.13 Video Signal Processing
  1.14 Noise Modeling
  1.15 Architectures and Software
  1.16 Other

2 Computed Imaging
  2.1  Acoustic Imaging
  2.2  Radar Imaging
  2.3  Tomography
  2.4  Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  2.5  Geophysical and Seismic Imaging
  2.6  Radio Astronomy
  2.7  Speckle Imaging
  2.8  Computer Holography
  2.9  Confocal Microscopy
  2.10 Electron Microscopy
  2.11 X-ray Crystallography
  2.12 Coded-Aperture Imaging
  2.13 Real-Aperture Arrays
  2.14 Other

3 Image Scanning, Display and Printing
  3.1  Scanning and Sampling
  3.2  Quantization and Halftoning
  3.3  Colour Reproduction
  3.4  Image Representation and Rendering
  3.5  Graphics and Fonts
  3.6  Architectures and Software for Display and Printing Systems
  3.7  Image Quality
  3.8  Visualization
  3.9  Other

scott
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