Sharing Computer Vision Algorithms Over the World Wide Web

In this article we explore different possibilities of using the Internet for making computer vision algorithms publicly available. We describe how to build an interactive client/server application which uses World Wide Web for communication. The client program is a Java applet, while the server program works on the server as a CGI program. A stand-alone program for image segmentation was transformed into a Javaclient /CGI-server application, which can be used as a service on the World Wide Web. 1 Introduction Researchers in the field of computer vision work on different computers using various operating systems. Therefore it is very difficult to make the software available to the others in a convenient way because of different platforms being used. Fortunately, the Internet provides the means for communication across different platforms. Researchers can exchange messages, discuss problems in discussion groups, This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Rep..