VisR is a company that I am affiliated with. I am happy to see some of my long-term research ideas starting to take shape and go beyond academic research community. VisR organizes and helps you share and retrieve your visual events. The latest version was released in Android market place and a web site to [...]
One hears commonly about the semantic gap, and approaches to bridging it, but never hears about quantifying it and using that in developing better recognition system. I don’t know how to do it, but want to at least think os taking a step in understanding the problem better. Semantic gap (SG) is manifestation of the [...]
Since Google + came in and introduced circles in a playful manner, people seem to be fascinated by circles. I like them, but they are not what they appear to be. I want much more from my circles. It is very difficult to form useful circles except for some obvious ‘fixed’ relations in life — [...]
When you see something interesting happening, you take out your camera, now your mobile phone, and click. And that becomes your secondary visual memory. Clicking your phone camera is effortless and costs you almost zero. So now you take many more photos than you used to just a few years ago. The only hesitation is [...]
Amarnath Gupta, my long term partner in crime in multimedia information retrieval and I are about to finish a book: Managing Event Information. This book is a result of our efforts to discuss emerging information management systems to represent real world events. We present the state of are related to event representation and different operations [...]