IDOLON was sponsored by IBM Germany.
Algorithms and parts of the program were supplied by Rainer Creutzburg and Adolf Mathias from the Institute of Algorithms and Cognitive Systems at the University of Karlsruhe.
The image management and the TFF format was developed by Markus Muehlbauer, now at Department of Physiscs at Munich University of Technology.
Many thanks to Manfred Precht, head of the Mathematics, Statistics and Data Processing Insitute at Munich University of Technology - Weihenstephan, where the IDOLON project was carried out.