Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, pp. 435-444, May 1994.
Abstract:
The ViewStation system embodies a software-oriented approach to the
support of interactive media-based applications. Starting from the
premise that the raw media data, e.g., the video pixels themselves,
must eventually be made accessible to the application, we have derived
a set of architectural guidelines for the design of media processing
environments. The resultant ViewStation system, as described in this
paper, consists of the VuSystem, a complete media programming
environment, and the VuNet, a substrate for the acquisition,
communication and rendering of video and closed caption text.