Implementing full backtracking facilities for Prolog-based image processing

Andrew C. Jones; Bruce G. Batchelor

doi:10.1117/12.223983

3 October 1995 Implementing full backtracking facilities for Prolog-based image processing

Andrew C. Jones, Bruce G. Batchelor

Proceedings Volume 2597, Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration IV; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.223983
Event: Photonics East '95, 1995, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract

PIP (Prolog image processing) is a system currently under development at UWCC, designed to support interactive image processing using the PROLOG programming language. In this paper we discuss Prolog-based image processing paradigms and present a meta-interpreter developed by the first author, designed to support an approach to image processing in PIP which is more in the spirit of Prolog than was previously possible. This meta-interpreter allows backtracking over image processing operations in a manner transparent to the programmer. Currently, for space-efficiency, the programmer needs to indicate over which operations the system may backtrack in a program; however, a number of extensions to the present work, including a more intelligent approach intended to obviate this need, are mentioned at the end of this paper, which the present meta-interpreter will provide a basis for investigating in the future.

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Andrew C. Jones and Bruce G. Batchelor "Implementing full backtracking facilities for Prolog-based image processing", Proc. SPIE 2597, Machine Vision Applications, Architectures, and Systems Integration IV, (3 October 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.223983

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