APL iconics

Abstract

The discipline of iconics refers to the integrated analysis, generation and management of digital images by computer. In pictorial data analysis, iconic techniques help a proper definition and design of interactive systems for the interpretation of digital images. The use of APL allows on the other side, the formal definition and the person-person communication of the designed tools, the quick and economic development of user-oriented prototypes and their tests and checks.

Iconic queries on pictorial data

“…If it is expressed by a conventional sign (see fig.l.b, 1.c) i.e. by a well established icon in the communicant visual language [9] [ 101 [ 111, then the set of graphic tokens composing the icon and their relations are recognized, an interpretation of the icon as a whole is deduced and the computation associated with the conventional reaction associated with recognition of the visual sign is fired. Therefore this IQ interpretation becomes a problem of image interpretation to be solved under simplyfing constraints.…”

“…For iconic queries this activity can be seen as a case of the more general image interpretation defined as "the activity by which an expert associates structures present in an image with objects present in a scene from which the image was drawn" [9]. The procedure for IQ interpretation is being studied and experimented using ISIID (Interactive System for Image Interpretation Design), an environment which allows the definition of image interpretation procedure [9] [14].…”

“…The procedure for IQ interpretation is being studied and experimented using ISIID (Interactive System for Image Interpretation Design), an environment which allows the definition of image interpretation procedure [9] [14]. In ISIID a KF definition is specified in terms of interpretation strategies i.e.…”