Continuing improvements in CPU and GPU performances as well as increasing multi-core processor and cluster-based parallelism demand for flexible and scalable parallel rendering sol...
In the multimedia field, metadata are becoming increasingly important for efficiently cataloguing the abundant flood of information. (Metadata are data on information structure...
Software development is getting more and more complex, especially within distributed middleware-based environments. A major drawback during the overall software development proces...
JPEG2000, the new standard for still image coding, Quantization, user defined wavelets, arbitrary wavelet provides a new framework and an integrated toolbox to better decomposition...
This paper gives an overview of two middleware systems that have been developed over the last 6 years to address the challenges involved in developing parallel and distributed imp...