SImPLe: a S ystem for Im age P rocessing Le arning

Digital image processing (DIP) is a very productive and challenging scientific research domain with a varied plethora of applications in diverse fields of scientific, commercial, and technical endeavor. Nonetheless, in spite of being a very practical discipline, it is perceived as being rather theoretical. It is equally important for the students to be able to implement it in a practical way and use it effectively. To develop the DPI practical skills, the use of educational tools for practical teaching appears to be a very suitable and effective strategy. SImPLe is a system designed and implemented in Java language to give students a powerful collection of fundamental and advanced image processing tools on the desktop.