I am coming back to my old blogging after a a few months of hiatus. I started blogging during my battle with cancer to update all my friends about my situation and after conquering cancer, continued with blog. It became a habit. But then came Tweets (from Twitter) and Status Updates (from FaceBook) and these [...]
Amarnath Gupta, my long term partner in crime in multimedia information retrieval and I are about to finish a book: Managing Event Information. This book is a result of our efforts to discuss emerging information management systems to represent real world events. We present the state of are related to event representation and different operations [...]
Some things are so obvious that we do not notice them. I have been working on organizing images, videos, and related experiential information for quite some time. All efforts by us, like all other researchers, revolved around the information that is contained in the signals. And like all other researchers, we were getting more and [...]
Almost everybody has a mobile phone now. Worldwide there are more than 5 Billion mobile phones in the world and 6.5 Billion people. Based on this, many people have thought of using phone numbers as ‘id’ for a person. An entrepreneurial friend – Rajesh Jain from Mumbai India — has taken an interesting step based [...]
Mobile Phone Cameras are changing the nature of information as well as experiences. They are bridging the gap between information and experiences. This gap was created by absence of technology to capture, store, and share experiences. Since there was no such technology and the need was compelling, people innovated different means. Writing and then printing [...]