Misc Software

These are smaller software packages that are not hosted anywhere else.

This program allows you to capture a screen region and then run OCR on it. The captured images are sent to our screen-OCR server for processing. Currently, we only support Mac OS X. A Linux version is available upon request. Please send comments and improvement suggestions to Martin Kraemer.

demo-grab-mac.tar.gz

The following paper describes a way to dequantize images before performing image processing steps, which shows good performance for several tests:

D. Keysers, C. Lampert, and T. Breuel: Color image dequantization by constrained diffusion. In SPIE EI 2006, IS&T/SPIE 18th Annual Symposium Electronic Imaging, Vol. 6058 of Proc. SPIE, pages 6058.03.01-6058.03.10, San Jose, CA, January 2006.

diffusiondequant.tar.gz

Source code for FireWatch, a stand-alone GUI for the FIRE image retrieval engine. You can see screenshots here.

FireWatch is a client application for the Flexible Image Retrieval Engine FIRE, which is mainly developed at RWTH Aachen by Thomas Deselaers

More infos about FIRE and downloads can be found here

FireWatch is written in C++ using wxWidgets With FireWatch you can:

• obtain a random set of images
• select an image and retrieve similar images
• select a part of an image and retrieve similar images
• upload a new image to FIRE and retrieve similar images

FireWatch offers some advantages in usability compared to the web-based FIRE client. First, the display of the images can be modified flexibly with a zoom slider and scrollbars and, second, the amount of results can be adjusted at any time.

firewatch-0.1.tar.gz

The web-based publication repository that we use (see IUPR Publications) allows users to access and write technical reports / papers and associated metadata / bibliographic data.

The system is also used by another institute, see http://mechanik.mv.uni-kl.de/ (go to “Publikationen”).

dr.tgz
Documentation

A web based application to store papers and articles in PDF, text, PS and other formats. An online demo is available at http://dms.iupr.org:8080/.

DMS code
DMS v2 code
DMS Documentation
DMS v2 Documentation

Implementation by Christoph Lampert.

multirast.tar.gz

Code for locating the modes in kernel density estimates and for geometric matching; based on Christoph Lampert's multirast code (see above). These are the source codes accompanying the paper

O. Wirjadi and T. Breuel: A Branch and Bound Algorithm for Finding the Modes in Kernel Density Estimates. Int. J. Computational Intelligence and Applications, accepted for publication, 2008.

Available upon request: