A high performance multi-perspective vision studio

ABSTRACT

We describe a multi-perspective vision studio as a flexible high performance framework for solving complex image processing and machine vision problems on multi-view image sequences. The studio abstracts multi-view image data from image sequence acquisition facilities, stores and catalogs sequences in a high performance distributed database, allows customization of back-end processing services, and can serve custom client applications, thus helping make multi-view video sequence processing efficient and generic. To illustrate our approach, we describe two multi-perspective studio applications, and discuss performance and scalability results.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.4 IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Query formulation; Clustering

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.4 IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION
        I.4.10 Image Representation
            Subjects: Volumetric; Hierarchical; Statistical; Multidimensional
      I.4.8 Scene Analysis
          Subjects: Shape; Time-varying imagery; Depth cues; Color; Object recognition

General Terms:
Algorithms, Management, Measurement, Performance

Keywords:
database, distributed system, high-performance, image processing, multi-perspective, vision, volumetric reconstruction