The development of a real time image processing on a specific architecture is always restricting for the user who must master all the elementary mechanisms of the machine. Such specialised machines are not really designed to be used by inexperienced users. In order to build an application, we need to have a good knowledge of specific processors, and to resolve inherent timing problems when using the real time. The gap between the transformation concept applied to the images and the very low programming access of the specific processors is total for the user. So, we have designed an open bus platform associated with development tools in order to resolve this problem which, on a conceptual level, separates the global functions applied to the images from the hardware system which processes them.
M. Pizzocaro