Thread-based benchmarking deployment

Information and knowledge are actually well and easily distributed thanks to electronic journals, news, mailing-lists and forums. It is however more difficult to deploy algorithmic and programming collaboration: the heterogeneity of the programming languages and the operating systems used by researchers constitutes a major problem to the design of a common testing platform. Current solutions exist to develop collaborative work. Generally, these solutions impose specific programming languages and/or operating systems to developers. Some others specific rules have to be respected. These heavy constrains slow down the usage of collaborative programming platforms. The OpenWatermark project proposes a modern architecture for cooperative programming exchanges that takes all these aspects into account. Developers work with their favorite programming languages and operating systems as long as the OpenWatermark platform supports them. In this paper, we present the OpenWatermark platform (www.openwatermark.org) and its application to the benchmarking of image watermarking algorithms.Anglai