The second day of the symposium on Computational Journalism was also very interesting. Clearly, this is the area where some interesting innovations are likely to come both from computational side as well as from journalism side. At the symposium people…
Computational Journalism: Day 1
I am in Atlanta, at TSRB on the campus of Georgia Tech, attending a Symposium on Computational Journalism. This is the first event of this kind and I already feel that this is likely to become a field of some…
Applications of Face Recognition
Many people claim that they have face recognition solution. Face recognition is definitely a very important application. A company in Singapore (www.xidtech.com) has interesting approach to application of face recognition. They call it face synthesis approach. This approach relies on…
Human Sensors
There has been a lot of talk about using humans as sensors. With a mobile phone, humans become a good source of information, in most cases without any effort on their part. There have been ideas about harnessing these mobile…
Computational Journalism
Wikipedia defines Journalism is the discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news, and broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. Journalism applies to various media, but is not limited to newspapers, magazines, radio, and television.…