Hitachi announced a fast image similarity search — a million images can be searched in 1 second. Hitachi Ltd. has developed a search technology that can find images similar to a specified image from millions of images and video data in one second. The technology assesses the similarity of images based on image characteristics presented [...]
Many Nagpurians (or Nagpurkars) are getting serious about doing things in Nagpur to help the momentum to make it a great city in India. One of them is a great friend, Dinesh Jain, who has formed a group called Nagpur-first to bring together people interested in Nagpur and doing things there. You can contact him [...]
I am visiting Singapore to work with some top researchers, who also happen to be nice people, for a few weeks. This is the first time I will be living in a condo so I will experience a bit of real living here. The condo in Pandan Valley is a nice three bedroom condo — [...]
Who could imagine just a year (or much less say 6 months) ago that there will be an event called CNN YouTube debates that will be very popular (for example see the story in News.com)? YouTube has definitely become an example company in many ways. In addition to bringing video to masses and making it [...]
Microsoft research group always ahd a strong image processing/computer vision component. They now have a strong WoW technology in: HD View is one photo project that definitely has the “wow” factor. The technology allows users to combine hundreds of photos to create one massive picture that users can zoom in on to see clear details. [...]