Appscio: A Software Environment for Semantic Multimedia Analysis

The goal of the Appscio(tm) software platform is to ease the creation of multimedia content analysis applications that consist of components provided from multiple sources, in different programming languages, and for various operating systems. Appscio provides a unified approach that standardizes the entire process of development, deployment, and integration of components into productive applications. In addition, the aim is to facilitate the integration of analytic approaches with traditional sensor output. Therefore the framework allows the combination of multimedia analytics with any other event generating sources, as used for observational systems. A basic concept of the platform is to allow mainstream application developers to create semantic-rich Web applications that integrate components previously only accessible to scientists.