Who wrote TINA?
Tina was developed during various machine vision research projects as an infrastructure for research coordination. It has never been explicitly funded as a project in its own right. Tina was originally concieved by Stephen Pollard as a library to integrate the functions necessary for stereo based 3D machine vision. John Porrill sorted out most of the maths libraries and the graphics. Neil Thacker (NAT) debugged a lot of the software, recommended style changes to improve flexibility and added additional algorithms with the aim of creating a more generally useful vision research support tool. Since this team broke up, NAT has overseen the process of integrating software from the other contibutors (see documentation) as it is deemed appropriate. The sotware is now maintained by NAT, Marietta Scott, and Paul Bromiley.
