An advanced web-based digital image processing virtual lab using LabVIEW

Digital Image Processing (DIP) has found its applications in various domains and has become a highly active research area. Practical implementation and experimentation play an integral role in education as well as in research activities. For the easy and quick implementation of DIP operations, this paper proposes an advanced web-based virtual lab for digital image processing known as DIP VLab. It is a very simple, intuitive, user-friendly and high-performance virtual lab for research and development related experimentation and exploration. The proposed application enables the user to upload an input image, choose and perform any of the available DIP operations and generate the output image accordingly. It provides a large number of basic and advanced image processing operations and supports binary, color and grayscale image types. It also generates the detailed report of the experiments performed and sends it to the user's email which improves the user's overall experience. DIP VLab outperforms other virtual labs in terms of its features, functionalities, user-friendliness, efficiency, effectiveness, robustness and scalability. DIP VLab is publicly available for everyone on the internet (http://vlab.iitr.ac.in). This application is useful for novice as well as researchers as it allows the user to focus on experimentation instead of writing custom scripts.