A Case for Camera-as-a-Service

Mengwei Xu, Yunxin Liu, Xuanzhe Liu

Abstract: A new vision of harnessing the ocean of video data captured by cameras in an efficient, secure, and manageable way. Following the hardware trends in reality, we advocate to treat cameras as the first-class computing and storage platform, and expose their services to third parties. To this end, the cameras should move from hard-coded to software-defined, from dumb data source to autonomous data processor, from isolated to orchestrated, and from one-shot to human-in-the-loop.