The key idea: Experimentation!
SIPER is an educational tool for demonstrating signal processing techniques, integrated with MATLAB and with embedded evaluation boards. It can also be used as an analysis tool for research purposes. · Allowing experimentation with key parameters. · Both intermediate and final results are shown.
A variety of image processing techniques
	Color representation		RGB, YCbCr, HSV, LAB, …
	Morphological operators		erosion, dilation, opening, closing, top-hat, black-hat
	Analysis		histogram, edge detection, thresholding, segmentation
	Enhancement		filtering, histogram equalization, white balance, crosstalk cancellation
	Resizing		in spatial domain, in DCT domain, seam carving
	Compression		intra prediction, JPEG
	Texture synthesis		chaos mosaic, quilting, graph-cut
	Tools		noise addition, quality evaluation (PSNR, MSE, SSIM)
A modular plug-in architecture
· Allowing easy addition of new techniques. · A plug-in abstraction layer supplies GUI and I/O services to the plug-in so only a minimal programming knowledge is required in order to write a new plug-in. · New plug-ins can be written in C, C++, MATLAB® or any ARM-based embedded system.
A full demonstration system
The figure to the right depicts an example layout of a SIPER demonstration system. A host PC is running SIPER that interconnects to C and MATLAB® host plug-ins and to an ARM+DSP Beagleboard development board from Texas Instruments running embedded ARM and DSP plug-ins.
		Download SIPER 2.0.0
For any support issue regarding SIPER, please send e-mail to: siper@sipl.technion.ac.il .
SIPER is developed by the Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (SIPL), Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. SIPER is intended for non-commercial use and is licensed under the Creative Common 3.0.