Information technology - Computer graphics and image processing - Image Processing and Interchange (IPI) - Functional specification - Part 3: Image Interchange Facility (IIF)
This part of ISO/IEC 12087 facilitates the interchange of digital images. For this purpose, conceptual, architectural, and functional definitions of the Image Interchange Facility (IPI-IIF) are established. ISO/IEC 12087-3 consists of two major parts, the:
An IPI-IIF-conformant implementation has to fulfill the functionality specification of the IIF Gateway, as outlined in clause 7. Besides the IIF Gateway, there may be information processing systems (software such as parsers, generators, etc.) which read and/or write the IIF-DF.
The IPI-IIF is based on the definitions described in ISO/IEC 12087-1, the “Common Architecture for Imaging”. The IPI-IIF, as a whole, may be characterized briefly as follows:
Reference shall be made to this part of ISO/IEC 12087, and its definitions shall be employed, whenever images are interchanged, according to the IPI-IIF, among different imaging applications environments or among imaging devices. The IPI-IIF is applicable to scenarios requiring the interchange of digital images, as outlined in Annex C.
The use of the IIF data format as a superset of the functionality of most of the existing image interchange formats solves the problem of application-independent syntactical and semantical interpretation and understanding of image data.
The IPI-IIF is applicable to image interchange in and among different application domains. The following application areas have been considered:
The limiting of the IPI-IIF scope to certain application domains is a matter of profiling. This is treated in clause 6.
| SDO | ISO: International Organization for Standardization |
| Document Number | ISO/IEC 12087 |
| Publication Date | Not Available |
| Language | en - English |
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| Committee | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24/WG 7 |