Rajesh Jain sent me a link http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008684.html that suggests that I am not the only one struggling with this issue of taxonomy and tags.
Taxonomy and Folksonomy
It is common that we find a problem difficult to solve completely satisfactorily after significant efforts and conclude that the current approaches may not be correct approaches for the problem. We then start exploring an entirely different – sometime opposite…
Workshops at ACM Multimedia
There were several workshops on the last day of the program at ACM Multimedia. I attended parts of three. I gave the keynote talk at the workshop on Video Surveillance. My talk was on Observation Systems. This talk is available…
Video sharing
More sites for video sharing are starting to appear on web. Big players — Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft — are getting in this space and so are start-ups. Cable companies have been talking about this space from traditional media perspective.…
Third day at ACM Multimedia
Our community (academic multimedia community) is really going thru its ‘teenage’ years and is looking for its identity. Today’s panel on Foundational issues was another example of that. In this panel, most questions were based on the feeling that we…