A few weeks ago, I handed in my master’s thesis with the title “A Distributed Architecture for the MediaSearch Framework” after almost six months of work. Here is an abstract of the thesis:
The Fraunhofer SIT MediaSearch Framework is a loosely coupled, event based software system that searches internet platforms such as BitTorrent, Rapidshare or YouTube for media that match specified search criteria, downloads them and examines them for the presence of digital watermarks. Since the amount of media available on the internet is huge, the system is required to be scalable so that large amounts of data can be processed simultaneously. (more…)