CASSANDRA Framework: A Service Oriented Distributed Multimedia Content Analysis Engine

Connected Consumer Electronics (CE) devices face an exponential growth in storage, processing capabilities and connectivity bandwidth. This increased complexity calls for new software architectures that naturally admit self-organization, resource management for efficient workload distribution, and a transparent cooperation of connected CE-terminals. The interconnected nature makes advanced applications feasible such as the smart distribution of complex multimedia content analysis algorithms, resulting in automatic semantic content-awareness creation. In this paper we describe a modular, self-aware, self-organizing, real-time and distributed multimedia content analysis system. Based on a Service Oriented Architecture it is, furthermore, capable of efficiently and dynamically using the available resources in a grid-like manner.