The NIST Data Flow System II: A standardized interface for distributed multimedia applications

Author

Fillinger, A. ; Diduch, L. ; Hamchi, I. ; Hoarau, M. ; Degre, S. ; Stanford, V.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD

fYear

2008

fDate

23-26 June 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Modern multimedia applications use an increasing number of sensors including cameras, microphones and microphone arrays. These applications must acquire and process data from sensors in real-time, which is usually beyond the capabilities of single machines. We present our distributed sensor data transport middleware, the NIST data flow system II, which offers network transparent services for data acquisition and processing across a local network of computers. An application is thus represented as a data flow graph, with streaming media flowing between the different computational components. This is highlighted by presenting a multimedia application tracking persons using a sensor fusion of audio and video streams.

Keywords

data acquisition; distributed sensors; middleware; multimedia computing; sensor fusion; video streaming; NIST data flow system II; audio streaming; cameras; data acquisition; data flow graph; distributed multimedia applications; distributed sensor data transport middleware; media streaming; microphone arrays; network transparent services; sensor fusion; standardized interface; video streaming; Application software; Cameras; Data flow computing; Microphone arrays; Middleware; Multimedia systems; NIST; Sensor arrays; Sensor systems; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 2008. WoWMoM 2008. 2008 International Symposium on a

Conference_Location

Newport Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2099-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2100-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WOWMOM.2008.4594879

Filename

4594879