It is truly amazing how we the scientists behave like a person who has a hammer and (s)he wants to fix all the problems in the world using this hammer. Giver a problem, this person perceives that problem in a way that it becomes the head of a nail so the hammer could be used. [...]
Digital cameras have changed our habits significantly. In early days, we wwaited for ‘kodak moments’ and used our camera thoughtfully. Now we use our camera all the time and take photos generously — photos are becoming our inexpensive secondary memory to preserve our experiences and memories. A major problem has been how to use all [...]
On May 15th I had knee surgery so it has been exactly one month now. This surgery is definitely a painful experience but as people say and I know first hand because of my left knee, this painful period is very well rewarded later. This is one of those surgery that makes a big difference [...]
Maybe I am just ignorant of this, but I feel that Multimedia research community does not have resource sites where one could go to find information, data, algorithms, research places, products and such. If I need to run some experiments in clustering photos of the same event captured by multiple people (say Tom’s Wedding — [...]
The workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (ACM MIR) will become a conference beginning this year. This is likely to give a new venue for mature research in this area. THis definitely shows the need for and maturing of multimedia information retieval. Multimedia research in academia usually ends up being mono-media. We academicians like to show [...]