Accession Number:

ADA278847

Title:

The DataCube Server. Animate Agent Project Working Note 2, Version 1.0

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

CHICAGO UNIV IL DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Personal Author(s):

• Kahn, Roger E.
• Swain, Michael J.
• Firby, R. J.

Report Date:

1993-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

72.0

Abstract:

The DataCube server and client class facilitate the development of real-time vision systems by allowing you to write distributed programs that can access the DataCube MV200MV20 and DigiColor boards in parallel. The DataCube server is a network interface to a library of Pipelined routines that run of the MV200MV20 and DigiColor. The functions provided by the interface include frame grabbing, Gaussian pyramids, color histogram backprojection, color histogram intersection, motion detection from a moving platform, foveated frame display, and optionally, control of a Directed Perception pan-tilt head. Furthermore, the system is designed to be extendable so that new functions can be added to the server. The DataCube client class is a C class that provides a function based application programmatic interface to the DataCube server. To use the DataCube client class one does not need to be familiar with how the DataCube is programmed. The programmers interface is simply a C class with a set of member functions. All that one does is call the member functions the networking and pipelined processing happen behind the scenes.

Descriptors:

• *INTERFACES
• *PIPELINES
• *COMPUTER NETWORKS
• REAL TIME
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• MULTIPLE ACCESS
• LIBRARIES
• COMPUTER VISION
• ROBOTS
• PARALLEL PROCESSING

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Computer Hardware

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE