Mobile cloud computing educational tool for image/video processing algorithms

This paper shows the importance and benefit of coupling cloud computing with mobile especially due to power limitations that mobile devices exhibit. Moreover, the work done shows that mobile computing can be applied for educational purposes, where a tool for students termed Mobi4Ed is presented. This educational tool aims at exploiting the concept of cloud computing in the context of image and video processing, where students can assess several algorithms in real-time. Two possible system architectures are detailed, where one uses the cellular channel and the other uses the data channel. Consequently, one of the approaches is adopted and a detailed simulation is done where an Android client device is shown communicating with a server running openCV and using the Haar face-detection algorithm. The work assures the credibility of the adopted system architecture, in terms of deployment, and several future lines of work are proposed.