Embedded Middleware on Distributed Smart Cameras

Author

Rinner, Bernhard ; Jovanovic, Milos ; Quaritsch, M.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Tech. Inf., Graz Univ. of Technol., Austria

Volume

4

fYear

2007

fDate

15-20 April 2007

Abstract

Two trends emerge in recent image processing research: distributed computing and embedded processing. Both trends are exemplified in smart cameras which combine image sensing, image processing and communication on a single embedded device. Networks of distributed smart cameras help to overcome some hard problems that are inherent in single-camera systems. Designing, implementing and deploying image processing applications for cooperating distributed cameras is much more complex than for single-camera systems. In this paper, we focus on software services required for distributed embedded image processing on a network of smart cameras. We identify important middleware services and present our lightweight middleware implemented on our distributed SmartCams. A multi-camera tracking application demonstrates the benefits of our approach.

Keywords

cameras; image processing; image sensors; intelligent sensors; middleware; distributed SmartCams; distributed computing; distributed smart cameras; embedded middleware; image processing; lightweight middleware; software services; Application software; Distributed computing; Image processing; Image segmentation; Informatics; Middleware; Smart cameras; Software systems; Streaming media; Video compression; distributed systems; embedded systems; image processing; middleware; smart cameras;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2007. ICASSP 2007. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0727-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367336

Filename

4218367