I’ve been working on this problem of image retrieval since before digital images became commonly available to the average consumer. Now digital photos are not only available, they’re part of everybody’s lifestyle. And in this time, we’ve not developed any systems that can help organize and retrieve photos. I started doing research in this area [...]
The most important factor is that even the most powerful visual system known to humans— the human visual system—uses all kinds of metadata. Also, it’s well known that humans first use peripheral vision to form a general idea about what they might see before they really focus on the details and spend valuable perceptual resources [...]
With user generated content coming everywhere, why not stock photos. In a story at News.com Stephan Shankland reports: The site, called SnapVillage, differs from several of its rivals by letting photographers set their own prices from a range of options: $1, $5, $10, $25 or $50. The company hopes that choice, along with flexible but [...]
Technology Review reports a project to search sports video. The articles starts by saying: A new kind of visual-search engine has been developed to automatically scour sports footage for clips showing specific types of action and events. According to its creators, borrowing a few tricks from the field of machine translation seems to make all [...]
Before social networks came online and many Intenet age people starte thinking that Social Networks is an Intenet phenomena, there used to be social network in real life. It appears that Internet social networkers are realizing that social networks exist beyond net also. Caroline McCarthy has a report in news.com on this. Online social networking [...]