Component based data and image processing systems — A conceptual and practical approach

Setting up new data and image processing systems is an always recurring task. Since reusing algorithms and other functionality leads to higher program quality and mostly shorter development time, this approach introduces a novel Component-Based Software Engineering System (CBSE). It supports special types such as diagrams and structures, components and component-instance-diagrams known from UML. The system allows an abstract and object-oriented description of data and image processing tasks. The CBSE system is integrated into a rich client platform (RCP), supporting dynamic, plugin-based GUI-extensions, 2D/3D rendering using OpenGL and also fast data processing using OpenCL.