After a very tiring journey from Frankfurt to Vacouver, I arrived at ACM Multimedia. At this conference I feel as if I am with my family and friends. It is always fun to be at tis conference. At the ACM MIR, Tom Huang gave one of those talks that make you think. He posed 7 [...]
I shared my thoughts on Multimedia Semantic Web at the International Semantic Web Conference in Karlsruhe. See the conference information here. This was the first Keynote Talk of the conference, and was attended by more than 600 people. You can get the presentation from my homepage (www.ics.uci.edu/~jain) under presentations. The theme of the talk was [...]
Wikipedia defines some important characteristics of models and descriptions. On model it says: A model in science is a physical, mathematical, or logical representation of a system of entities, phenomena, or processes. Basically a model is a simplified abstract view of the complex reality. For the scientist, a model is also a way in which [...]
I had a chance to meet Prof. Hans Helmut Nagel today for dinner. I met him after about 25 years — but during the dinner it felt that we have been meeting regularly. It was one of the most memorable dinner I ever had. Prof. Nagel was my research advisor when I was in Germany [...]
In “Content-Based Image Retrieval at the End of the Early Years Found in: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Arnold Smeulders , Marcel Worring , Simone Santini , Amarnath Gupta , Ramesh Jain December 2000″ the semantic gap was defined as: The semantic gap is the lack of coincidence between the information that one [...]