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To overcome this problem PODIUM has been developed, PODIUM 
being an 
acronym for Polygon-Oriented Digital Image 
Utilization Management System. 
More exactly, 
the following fundamental design criteria 
have been adopted: 
1. being optimum on every level of application from simply 
storing and retrieving pictorial 
information up to 
managing amage data bases, 
2. providing optimum storage allocation and access methods 
for each type of information to be handled, 
3. enabling unexperienced programmers to deal with by 
means of simple subroutine references, 
4. its background being a concept allowing an installation 
on every digital computer with direct-access storage 
equipment, 
5. most efficiently utilizing 
installation. 
every 
the available hardware upon 
This first presentation of PODIUM mainly stresses techniques 
and theory with respect to items 2 through 5 while appli- 
cation aspects,expecially those pertaininc to the first 
requirement, 
2. What do we call digital 
will be discussed in /6/. 
image utilization management? 
  
Following Rosenfeld /7/ one may divide digital 
analysis up 
where image 
form images 
maps images 
Conventional digital 
image 
into image processing and image recognition 
processing refers to operations which trans- 
into other images, while image recognition 
into descriptions. 
image utilization management was 
chiefly restricted to image processing since the image 
data was the only information to be managed by means of 
appropriate data structures. 
Hence, there was no need 
for this technical term. 
Though recent image recognition research has been pro- 
gressing strongly it is true that most of the current 
computer programs produce the desired results but at the 
price of 
- consuming considerable large amounts of time upon 
manipulating non-pictorial 
information, 
- keeping the scientists busy with preprocessing, post- 
processing, book-keeping and filing.