Design of platform independent, collaborative graphical environment using edge Detection

Graphical authors face a plethora of challenges in authoring images collaboratively. Their tasks involve work by different authors at each and every stage of the design process. Some of the challenges in such a collaborative environment are time and space, awareness, communication, intellectual property, simultaneity and locking, protection, workflow, security and platform independence. This paper aims at providing a design environment, which is platform independent and collaborative through layer masking based on Canny´s edge detection algorithm.