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Design of a distributed CORBA based image processing server.

C Giess·H Evers·V Heid·H P Meinzer
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This paper presents the design and implementation of a distributed image processing server based on CORBA. Existing image processing tools were encapsulated in a common way with this server. Data exchange and conversion is done automatically inside the server, hiding these tasks from the user. The different image processing tools are visible as one large collection of algorithms and due to the use of CORBA are accessible via intra-/internet.

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C Giess, H Evers, V Heid, H P Meinzer. 2000. Design of a distributed CORBA based image processing server.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10977589/

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