TINA (TINA Is No Acronym) is an open source environment developed to accelerate the process of image analysis research. TINA provides functionality to assist in all areas of image analysis including handling of image, image feature and geometrical data; statistical and numerical analysis of data; GUI development as well as transmission and containment of data. TINA also provides a range of high-level analysis techniques for both machine vision (3D object location, 2D object recognition, temporal-stereo depth estimation, etc) and medical image analysis (MR tissue segmentation, blood flow analysis, etc).

TINA core library development is currently funded by the EU as part of the IST programme under the Free Software: Towards Critical Mass call. This call aims to support and accelerate the development of key open source software within Europe and represents clear recognition by the EU of the potential of open source software development. Details of this project can be found on the OSMIA project page.