VASE Lab Software

Most of the research that takes place in the VASE Lab results in the production of software.

Image capture and processing

• Software for controlling the pan/tilt/zoom head of Sony EVI-D31 cameras via an RS232 line under Linux.

Digital (still) camera support for Linux

• A Perl program for copying images from a digital camera, such as the Fuji Finepix 6900Zoom, which appears as a USB mass storage device under Linux. (The output frames have names generated from the date and a sequence number.)

• A Perl program for generating thumbnail images and web pages from full-size images.

L^AT_EX support

One of the members of the VASE Lab, Adrian Clark, has been using L^AT_EX since 1985 and has "infected" the remainder of the Lab.

All of the following "style files" are usable with L^AT_EX2e via its \usepackage mechanism.

• dates.sty: a style file that can output today's date in a variety of formats and is easily modified to support languages other than English. The latest release interoperates correctly with recent enhancements to the support for PostScript fonts (which stole the command \th); this means it is incompatible with the earlier releases of dates.sty from the early 1990s.

• ieeconf.sty:

• ieeeconf.sty:

• spie.sty:

• essex_logo.eps: Written by Dr Steve Sangwine of the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, this is a pure-PostScript version of the University of Essex's "E" logo. (Restricted to Essex hosts.)

Obsolete software

• An image capture library that drives (via video4linux) BT848-based capture cards under Linux and SGI capture sub-systems for SGI Indys. We mostly use Hauppage WinTV cards under Linux and achieve full-frame video at 25Hz on suitable PC-class systems.