Re: Image processing job questions..

If you want to write algorithms, then in my experience it has to be
C/C++ in order to get the processing throughput high enough. If you
know some MMX/SIMD instructions and/or have experience with the IPL
then all the better. Dont be afriad of, and get good at maths,
especially matrix operations. Browse Numerical recipes in C++, just so
you know what can be done. Read papers once in a while.

If you want to write apps, then you will need some higher level
language too, C#, VB etc seem to be popular.

If you want to build systems, then remember the names of companies
which manufacture cameras, framegrabbers and algorithms. Get hold of a
cheap machine vision framegrabber (sub-£200 try IDL or Euresys), learn
how to program it, try making some of your own applications.

I tend to write the image processing algorithms as DLLs in C/C++. I
then write applications in VB which call those DLLs.

I know places which work in Java, esp mobile phone companies, but they
dont do as much low level and/or real-time algorithm work. For them,
image processing can mean converting JPG's to GIF, or re-sizing an
image. For me, its something more interesting than that.
Good luck!

kkokosa@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I did my degree in physics before switching to image processing for
PhD. I have never had to look for work, its found me. I joined a
machine vision company doing app eng work, then did some research back
at uni, then joined another embedded image processing company.

That's exacly what I'm dreaming of :) Do you use Java/J2ME or
C++/Symian/etc.? What do you think, what directions is more promising?

Dont give in to the dark side and be a boring code monkey database
programmer!

That's exacly what I'm trying to avoid :)

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