A few years ago, lots of activity started in logging one’s lifeusing all kind of electronic devices. A DARPA project with the name LifeLog was launched but was later cancelled due to privacy issues. But many other efforts started at that time including (possibly the best known) MyLifeBits and others. The whole concept is very [...]
Advances in technology result in societal transformations. Paradoxically, advances in technology often result in creation of new problems, while solving some existing problems. This is very clear in several areas being influenced by rapid advances in computing. Computer vision and multimedia are the fields that did not exist 50 years ago. When computer vision started, [...]
The Power of Pull by J. Hagel III, JS Brown, and L Davison is a thought provoking book. A good read. It shows that the Edge has become more central to knowledge than the Core. Core is important but real action is at edges. Technology has changed the pace at which Edge becomes core and [...]
In a paper written by Vivek Singh, Mingyan Gao, and yours truly, to be presented at ACM Multimedia Conference in Florence, we present the concept of Social Pixels and their implications in understanding and extending social media. Social pixels could be a powerful mechanism to aggregate micro-events, including tweets and status updates, to detect and [...]
With Pinaki Sinha, I just finished a research paper titled: Content Without Context is Meaningless. Its abstract reads: We revisit one of the most fundamental problems in multimedia that is receiving enormous attention from researchers without making much progress in solving it: the problem of bridging the semantic gap. Research in this area has focused [...]