CELIP: A Cellular Language for Image Processing

Cellular automata might be implemented as programmable special-purpose processors controoled by universal computer systems. This configuration is appropriate, because in general only special tasks of complex problems are efficiently parallelizable. Many task for image processing like window operators for filtering, smoothing or edge detection may be presented in a way particularly suitable for cellular automata. In this paper we present CELIP, a CEllular Language for Image Processing. It has been developed for prototyping cellular algorithms for image processing.