MTES: Visual Programming Environment for Teaching and Research in Image Processing

In this paper, we present a visual-programming environment for teaching and research referred to as “MTES”. MTES(Multimedia Education System) is the system designed to support both lecture and laboratory experiment simultaneously in one environment. It provides tools to prepare on-line teaching materials for the lecture and the experiment. It also provides a suitable teaching environment where lecturers can present the online teaching materials effectively and demonstrate new image processing concepts by showing real examples. In the same teaching environment, students can carry out experiments interactively by following the online instruction prepared by lecturer. In addition to support for the image processing education, MTES is also designed to assist research and application development with visual-programming environment. By supporting both teaching and research, MTES provides an easy bridge between learning and developing applications.