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Opencast is a flexible and customizable video capture and distribution system that facilitates mass videotaping of lectures and classes, an open source alternative to proprietary automated recording systems. The current Opencast architecture is highly centralized, integrating very simple recording devices within the classrooms with a powerful central processing system. As a natural evolution of Opencast we describe in this paper a new architecture in which much of the image processing tasks are transferred from the central servers to a new generation of powerful recording devices. Those devices, smart capture agents, contribute to enhance the capabilities of the Opencast systems along different directions: better scalability, lower complexity and lower purchasing and operating costs.
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A working version of the Smart CA is currently marketed as Galicaster-PRO by the Teltek company.
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Goyanes, V., González, R., Sánchez, A., Docampo, D. (2018). A Smart-CA Architecture for Opencast Matterhorn. In: De Pietro, G., Gallo, L., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services 2017. KES-IIMSS-18 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 76. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59480-4_8
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