Advanced Video and Imaging Network Environment (AVINE)

Overview

• Introduction
• Collection of Components
• Software Components
• Platforms
• Acronyms

Introduction

Advanced Video and Imaging Network Environment (AVINE) is a a construction toolkit for small scale to large scale Video installations dedicated to inspecting, monitoring and data taking, focused but not limited to beam profiles at particle accelerators. The concept of it is to have rather small, flexible, well-defined software components which can be interconnected together or run in parallel to create a bigger system out of it.

Software Components

• SGP (Small Grabber Part)
  supports primarily GigE (Gigabit Ethernet)
  • Pleora eBUS
  • Prosilica PvAPI
  • MS Directshow
  • JAI SDK
  • ... (see Image Sources)
• R2J (Raw to JPEG Layer)
• evnAgent (event number Agent)
• ACOP VideoBean
• USC Server
• USC Client
• USC Server Configuration Editor
• Video Client 3
• Video System Control Panel

Platforms

The source code consist of C++ and Java. Currently, C++ sourcecode is compiled on Windows (x64) and Linux platform (RHEL, Ubuntu-debian). Where applicable, C++-parts are designed to be platform independent, so that easy porting to another platform is possible. On Java source code an eye is kept that it stays native, so that it is instantly available to any platform where there is a Java runtime environment. Future development on Windows will be focused on Windows 11, 64-bit platform.

Acronyms

AVINE	short form for Advanced Video and Imaging Network Environment, the name chosen for the current release (code name: VSv3) and future versions
Image Source	commonly referred to as camera, some device where images are mainly taken repetively, in 90% of all cases it is a camera (imager hardware), but it is not limited to it
Layer	intermediate software component/Tine server (compare SGP which is front-end type) which takes some already produced video stream and 'does something with it', it may or may not have an output interface for video stream (-> R2J), layer because it in general acts as a layer between SGP and client-side
R2J	short form for Raw2Jpeg, a Layer type component which takes raw image stream in Video System 3 format and transforms it into a jpeg image stream. The jpeg image stream is then provided via Video System 3 output interface.
SGP	Small Grabber Part: front-end software component/tine server close to image source hardware, communicates to API of image source, takes images from image source and provides the produced video stream at some output interface
SSC	short form for Simple Slow Control, a welldefined tine property interface an SGP server provides if (as it's in general the case for modern GigE Vision cameras) controlling the camera needs to be done at the same instance of the API where the image source video frames are read out
USC	Universal Slow Control: java tine client/server based solution to control settings inside devices, mainly settings inside image source hardware are read out and/or controlled by that (e.g. gain, shutter speed, black level, adc window, binning)
VSv2	short form for Video System 2, the predecessor of the current release (Video System 3), ~2003-2008
VSv3	short form for Video System 3, the current release of the TINE Video System, ~2008- (lifetime >= 15 years expected)