Scalable software architecture for on-line multi-camera video processing

Massimo Camplani; Luis Salgado

doi:10.1117/12.873082

2 February 2011 Scalable software architecture for on-line multi-camera video processing

Massimo Camplani, Luis Salgado

Proceedings Volume 7871, Real-Time Image and Video Processing 2011; 787106 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873082
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011, San Francisco Airport, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper we present a scalable software architecture for on-line multi-camera video processing, that guarantees a good trade off between computational power, scalability and flexibility. The software system is modular and its main blocks are the Processing Units (PUs), and the Central Unit. The Central Unit works as a supervisor of the running PUs and each PU manages the acquisition phase and the processing phase. Furthermore, an approach to easily parallelize the desired processing application has been presented. In this paper, as case study, we apply the proposed software architecture to a multi-camera system in order to efficiently manage multiple 2D object detection modules in a real-time scenario. System performance has been evaluated under different load conditions such as number of cameras and image sizes. The results show that the software architecture scales well with the number of camera and can easily works with different image formats respecting the real time constraints. Moreover, the parallelization approach can be used in order to speed up the processing tasks with a low level of overhead.

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Massimo Camplani and Luis Salgado "Scalable software architecture for on-line multi-camera video processing", Proc. SPIE 7871, Real-Time Image and Video Processing 2011, 787106 (2 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873082

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