CaML: camera markup language for network interaction

Maxwell Sayles; Xiaojing Wu; Jeffrey E. Boyd

doi:10.1117/12.476176

10 January 2003 CaML: Camera Markup Language for Network Interaction

Maxwell Sayles, Xiaojing Wu, Jeffrey E. Boyd

Proceedings Volume 5018, Internet Imaging IV; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.476176
Event: Electronic Imaging 2003, 2003, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

As processor speeds increase and the cost of digital video technology falls, the use of video is expanding in a plethora of applications including video surveillance, human computer interaction, tele-instruction, and enhanced sports broadcasts. However, a major problem that now faces developers of video systems is the requirement to build the low-level video processing from the ground up for each application. This paper describes a camera system that acts not merely as a provider of pixels, but as a video information server. A video application interacts with the camera server using the Camera Markup Language (CaML, pronounced camel) proposed here. CaML is an XML-based (Extensible Markup Language) data format for exchanging video information with a server. It provides a layer of abstraction between the application and the pixels to simplify the development process and is well-suited to exchanging data over a network. Using a camera as a server on a network makes it a simple matter for a single application to use multiple cameras. Local- and wide-area networks (LANs and WANs) replace the need for conventional methods for routing video signals.

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Maxwell Sayles, Xiaojing Wu, and Jeffrey E. Boyd "CaML: Camera Markup Language for Network Interaction", Proc. SPIE 5018, Internet Imaging IV, (10 January 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.476176

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