India has been independent now for 60 years today. Like every young country it has been thru ups and downs. At this stage, it is going thru the highest and longest up in its young history. It does have serious…
India as Outsourcer
Onr always reads articles on India being a place that provides outsourcing services. This article in InfoWorld is very interesting as it points to a different trend starting — a true gloablization is coming. India has emerged as the biggest…
Interest in Nagpur
Many Nagpurians (or Nagpurkars) are getting serious about doing things in Nagpur to help the momentum to make it a great city in India. One of them is a great friend, Dinesh Jain, who has formed a group called Nagpur-first…
Wow factor in photo technologies at Microsoft
Microsoft research group always ahd a strong image processing/computer vision component. They now have a strong WoW technology in: HD View is one photo project that definitely has the “wow” factor. The technology allows users to combine hundreds of photos…
Research in Computer Vision (and many other fields)
Long ago I wrote an article ‘ignorance, myopia, and naivete in computer vision’ (with Tom Binford) on the state or research in around 1989. This article became quite controversial at that time. In some context I looked at the article…