High-Performance Distributed Video Content Analysis with Parallel-Horus

Frank J. Seinstra, Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Dennis Koelma, Cees G. M. Snoek, Marcel Worring, Arnold W. M. Smeulders

Abstract: As the world uses more digital video that requires greater storage space, grid computing is becoming indispensable for urgent problems in multimedia content analysis. Parallel-Horus, a support tool for applications in multimedia grid computing, lets users implement multimedia applications as sequential programs for efficient execution on clusters and grids, based on wide-area multimedia services.