Let me paraphrase a famous story in the context of research, with an example from computer vision and multimedia. A drunken multimedia researcher loses the keys to his house and is looking for them under a lamppost. Another researcher comes over and asks what he’s doing. “I’m looking for my keys” he says. “Let me [...]
Mark Twain said: “To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” His observation is definitely very relevant to current trends in computer vision and multimedia content analysis. We have a Machine Learning Hammer (ML Hammer) that we want to use for solving any problem that needs to be solved. The problem is [...]
While reading some historical account of how reading is evolving. In addition to many other interesting ideas, one idea that I could not get out of my mind – and hence this short musing on a really serious topic – was that at one time books like War and Peace were considered great books but [...]