A software-oriented approach to the design of media processing environments

Author

Tennenhouse, David L. ; Adam, Joel ; Carver, David ; Houh, Henry ; Ismert, Michael ; Lindblad, Christopher ; Stasior, Bill ; Wetherall, David ; Bacher, David ; Chang, Theresa

Author_Institution

Lab. for Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

15-19 May 1994

Firstpage

435

Lastpage

444

Abstract

The ViewStation architecture embodies a software-oriented approach to the support of interactive media-based applications. Starting from the premise that the raw media data, e.g., the video pixels themselves, must eventually be made accessible to the application, we have derived a set of architectural guidelines for the design of media processing environments. The resultant ViewStation architecture, as described in this paper, consists of the VuSystem, a complete media programming environment, and the VuNet, a substrate for the acquisition communication and rendering of video and closed caption text. We describe a set of computer-participative applications that demonstrate the present day viability of applications that participate in, i.e., actively process, live media-based information. Early performance results illustrate the affordability and benefits of our software-oriented approach

Keywords

multimedia systems; programming environments; rendering (computer graphics); ViewStation architecture; VuNet; VuSystem; interactive media-based applications; live media-based information; media processing environments; media programming environment; rendering; software-oriented approach; video pixels; Multimedia computing; Software development environments;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5530-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1994.292465

Filename

292465