# How to Use DIP Khorosware

There are several ways you can use DIP Khorosware as a self-study guide. Choose the one you prefer best. Independent of the path selected, this course is intended to bridge the gap between theory and practice by providing a "hands-on" approach to digital image processing.

Each lesson or experience is organized as follows:

A front page gives a description of the problem or the concept for the experiment. This page is typically full of images and graphics showing the original data and the processed image or result. It explains the fundamentals of image processing in general. The front page is independent and can be used as a non-practical illustrative DIP course, i.e., without the "hands-on" touch.

At the end of the front page there are two links:

- Lab
- Other Examples

<LI><B>Execute the visual program "workspace-name.wk"</B>. </UL> <P> Lab takes you through a step by step recipe on how to combine Khoros operators/glyphs to solve a problem or illustrate concepts of a solution or experiment. It is intended for you to acquire experience on where to find and how to use the different operators. For the inexperienced user, you will need to go step by step over the first few workspaces provided. As you acquire more experience, you will be able to build a workspace without refering to existing ones, or look at workspaces only when difficulties arise. Finally, at the end you will find a list of suggested exercises that provide further questions and problems so that you can extend and practice what you have learned, and the name of the proposed visual program that is ready for execution.

Now you are ready to run, see the results, change parameters and play. Our experience in teaching indicates that it is not advisable to go straight to and run the workspaces provided in the course. The reason is that you will not understand how the workspace was built, why the set of operators were chosen, why certain parameters were selected whithin an operator and their values. Therefore, for your convenience, a solution workspace is included in the DIP Khorosware so that you can observe, experiment, and play with a solution to a problem or illustration of concepts.

###### Copyright © 1997-1995 KRI, ISTEC, Ramiro Jordán, Roberto Lotufo. All Rights Reserved