Extremely distributed media processing

William Butera; V. Michael Bove Jr.; James McBride

doi:10.1117/12.451075

20 December 2001 Extremely distributed media processing

William Butera, V. Michael Bove Jr., James McBride

Proceedings Volume 4674, Media Processors 2002; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.451075
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2002, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The Object-Based Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory is developing robust, self-organizing programming models for dense ensembles of ultra-miniaturized computing nodes which are deployed by the thousands in bulk fashion, e.g. embedded into building materials. While such systems potentially offer almost unlimited computation for multimedia purposes, the individual devices contain tiny amounts of memory, lack explicit addresses, have wireless communication ranges only in the range of millimeters to centimeters, and are expected to fail at high rates. An unorthodox approach to handling of multimedia data is required in order to achieve useful, reliable work in such an environment. We describe the hardware and software strategies, and demonstrate several examples showing the processing of images and sound in such a system.

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William Butera, V. Michael Bove Jr., and James McBride "Extremely distributed media processing", Proc. SPIE 4674, Media Processors 2002, (20 December 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.451075

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