Eye stands for ``Enhance your Extraction'': a software for training

SExtractor's retina. The retina expands the possibility offered by traditional

convolution (e.g. matched filtering) to the non-linear domain.

A neural network, connected to pixels of a moving window (``retina'') in one

or several input image(s), is trained to associate

these ``stimuli'' to the corresponding response in one or several ``model''

image(s). The resulting filter can then be loaded in SExtractor to operate

complex, wildly non-linear filters on astronomical images. Typical

applications of this system include adaptive filtering, feature detection and

cosmetic corrections.

This file describes shortly the SYNTAX of EyE.

See INSTALL for instructions about install.

For more information, please refer to the documentation

(see http://astromatic.net/software/eye/ )

The general SYNTAX is the following:

% eye -i Input_image1 [Input_image2 ...] -o Output_image1 [Output_image2 ...]

[-c configuration-file] [-Parameter1 Value1 [-Parameter2 Value2 ...]]

- Keyword parameters given in the command line override those from the

configuration file.

- If the list-file is given as unique argument, EyE looks for a

default configuration file called ``eye.conf''. If no configuration

file is available, EyE uses internal defaults.

% eye -d

prints a default configuration file on the standard output

Please report any bug or strange behaviour to the AstrOmatic forum at

http://astromatic.net/forum

Emmanuel Bertin <bertin@iap.fr>