ISO Steering committee for image technology (SCIT)

Background

The current world of image technology covers a wide range of applications and industrial segments. As a result there is no one group or standards committee which has an overview of this area. In addition the field of image technology draws upon standards from many different areas and adapts them to their needs. This leads to fragmentation of standards development and redundant or overlapping work, largely due to lack of information rather than intentional duplication of effort.

A key issue is what is considered as imaging or image technology. A definition from a standards coordinating group in the 80s is still as good as any. They defined an image as "a representation or presentation giving a visual impression" and image technology as "any operations conducted on images that capture, synthesize, record, reproduce, convert, process, distribute, and display using photographic, electronic, computer or hybrid methods". This definition applies equally to the world of digital imaging today as it did to the world of analogue imaging then.

Scope

The ISO Steering Committee for Image Technology (SCIT) was formed in 2000. Its purpose is to enable the sharing of information among those ISO Technical Committees involved in image technology. so as to better coordinate and manage activities. It does not assign or manage specific imaging standards projects. The intent is to identify new work as early as possible and to optimize the use of, and sharing of, resources for the development of standards in image technology.

Membership

The membership of the SCIT is open to all ISO TCs and SCs (including those of ISO/IEC JTC 1) involved in image technology, and appropriate groups within any recognized international standardizing body (CIE, ITU, IEC, etc.) . Membership is also offered to any broadly based group developing or using standards or specifications for image technology, contingent upon approval by the membership of the SCIT.

Further information

Visit SCIT's Web site, accessible via the short URL www.iso.org/scit