I am attending ‘Video Analysis Content Extraction’ (VACE) Phase 2 Closeout Workshop. VACE is an interesting and important program sponsored by different groups of the Department of Defense. This program recognizes the fact that enormous volumes of video are being…
Words: The BoW
With increasing popularity of video, approaches are being explored to convert speech to text so textual approaches could be used. Interestingly, most speech to text systems work very well when in speech there are minimal emotions. So our search engines…
Representing events
Recently I coauthored a research paper with G. Utz Westermann in International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems. The abstract of the paper is given below and the paper is available here. The nature of information has changed significantly…
Vloggercon
The second conference on Vlogging took place in San Fran — see a report in News.com by Michelle Meyers. It was attended by 350 people. It seems that now there are more than 5000 vloggers. With improvement in tools to…
New ‘Channels’
Channels on TV used to be broadcast channels in which a company decided what the users should want to see and programmed accordingly. Accordingly, we all became couch potatoes and selected a channel and watched it. When multiple channels became…