Measuring the complexity of design in real-time imaging software

Raghvinder S. Sangwan; Pamela A. Vercellone-Smith; Phillip A. Laplante

doi:10.1117/12.705079

26 February 2007 Measuring the complexity of design in real-time imaging software

Raghvinder S. Sangwan, Pamela A. Vercellone-Smith, Phillip A. Laplante

Proceedings Volume 6496, Real-Time Image Processing 2007; 64960A (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.705079
Event: Electronic Imaging 2007, 2007, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Due to the intricacies in the algorithms involved, the design of imaging software is considered to be more complex than non-image processing software (Sangwan et al, 2005). A recent investigation (Larsson and Laplante, 2006) examined the complexity of several image processing and non-image processing software packages along a wide variety of metrics, including those postulated by McCabe (1976), Chidamber and Kemerer (1994), and Martin (2003). This work found that it was not always possible to quantitatively compare the complexity between imaging applications and nonimage processing systems. Newer research and an accompanying tool (Structure 101, 2006), however, provides a greatly simplified approach to measuring software complexity. Therefore it may be possible to definitively quantify the complexity differences between imaging and non-imaging software, between imaging and real-time imaging software, and between software programs of the same application type. In this paper, we review prior results and describe the methodology for measuring complexity in imaging systems. We then apply a new complexity measurement methodology to several sets of imaging and non-imaging code in order to compare the complexity differences between the two types of applications. The benefit of such quantification is far reaching, for example, leading to more easily measured performance improvement and quality in real-time imaging code.

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Raghvinder S. Sangwan, Pamela A. Vercellone-Smith, and Phillip A. Laplante "Measuring the complexity of design in real-time imaging software", Proc. SPIE 6496, Real-Time Image Processing 2007, 64960A (26 February 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.705079

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