Media Lab just announced creation of a center for future storytelling. With the establishment of the center, whose research program begins immediately, the Media Lab and Plymouth Rock Studios will collaborate to revolutionize how we tell our stories, from major…
Technology and Auto Industry
In the debate about the US auto industry, a perspective is that this could only be saved in the long term thru the use of technology. This view is expressed here. Clearly there is some truth to this view, but…
ACM Multimedia Conference
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…
Multimedia Semantics — Bridging the Semantic Gap
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…
Southern California Computer Vision MeetUp
My young, enthusiastic, and energetic colleagues Charless Fowlkes and Deva Ramanan took initiative and organized the first Southern California Computer Vision MeetUp. It is attended by more than 60 researchers from SoCal. An impressive array of active people. More details…