A General Framework of Professional Image Processing System Based on UML

Abstract

The unified modeling language (UML) was introduced to describe the model of the general framework of the professional image processing system (PIPS). The required functions, basic components and working principle of the general framework were discussed and given in the UML. The traditional mode and the novel mode based on the general framework were compared to develop a representative image processing system. Results demonstrate that the amount of person-months of the human resource of various ability levels can be reduced by at least 50%. Compared with traditional mode, the novel mode can improve efficiency, reduce risk and benefit to teamwork by making researchers only focus on the development of kernel modules rather than the other inefficient and repetitive works. This mechanism is also applicable to other similar systems.