What is an Event? The term ‘event’ means different events to different people. The meaning of event depends on the context and the granularity used in that context. There is inherent ambiguity associated with the term event as seen from…
Words: Visual words
Earlier this week I visited Prof. JiangPing Fan’s group at University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He has been working on developing image segmentation and classification approaches for annotating images. (Disclosure: I am intereacting with him in this research, but my…
Camera with 3D effects
John Markoff reports in NYT about a camera that will help bring sophisticated 3D effects. As pointed out: The system could change the nature of cinematography in several ways, according to leading Hollywood producers and technologists who are planning to…
Digital Photo Albums
I posted some thoughts on this topic some time ago here. Here are some functionality that I thought such systems should provide. These are still at very high level and are evolving. A digital photo album should provide following functionality:…
Words: Events
We live in three-dimensional space. This space is continuous. To refer to space we use different types of abstractions. Some abstractions are based on objects and some are the result of our desire to put some structure of otherwise continuous…