An Observation System has some general basic functionality. For specific applications these may be modified and refined. Some applications may require only a small subset of functionality discussed below. In general, the following are the functions that an Observation System…
A9 and Local
Search landscape is rapidly changing — particularly with respect to its geographic nature. A major driver in this change is the emergence of the mobile phones. Some interesting announcements in recent press are related to improved photograpic-maps by A9.com, more…
Observation Systems
While considering several applications, particularly related to surveillance and monitoring in these days of increasing web cameras due to terrorism, I felt that there is an interesting breed of systems that need to be considered as a class. That may…
Talk: Practical Apps of Multimedia Search
I gave the Key Note talk at International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval. The talk was “Practical Applications of Multimedia Searchâ€?. I have put the presentation – except the live demos and websites that I used in my talk…
Photo Database
The process of conversion of information in cyberspace from only textual to multimedia continues. Now big phot collections of historical importance have announced that they will have a strong database. NY Times article gives details of this. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/arts/design/20east.html? This is…