Service-based Processing of Gigapixel Images

Abstract

With the ongoing improvement of digital cameras and smartphones, more and more people can acquire high-resolution digital images. Due to their size and high performance requirements, such Gigapixel Images (GPIs) areoften challenging to process and explore compared to conventional low resolution images. To address this problem,this paper presents a service-based approach for GPI processing in a device-independent way using cloud-basedprocessing. For it, the concept, design, and implementation of GPI processing functionality into service-basedarchitectures is presented and evaluated with respect to advantages, limitations, and runtime performance.