About
The idea
The major idea behind this project is to provide a flexible environment for protyping of real-time image, video and signal analysis algorithms. The basic motivation is to enable researchers with a tool that allows quick evaluation of ideas, without compromising the efficiency of execution.
The approach
The approach taken here was to develop a universal framework for prototyping video analysis algorithms by building them from previously prepared blocks. Each block is in fact a dynamically linked library, with well defined interface, that ian be attached to a workflow of blocks and executed by the framework.The core of the Xai is called XaiEngine and contains all functionality needed to load, run and save algorithms. Additionaly, each block is a separately developed, dynamicaly-linked C++ class, that can be loaded during run-time. Also, any number of GUI's for Xai can be developed as XaiEngine provides a universal interface for accessing its functionality. Currently Xai contains a GUI developed in Gtk and based on DiaCanvas.
