One more innovative product that is taking us closer to Cybereal world. This is not the first product, but is from a well known comany — you can search real world using photos from mobile cameras. Read in NYT.
Searching real world using images from mobile
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Thanks for sharing the information.
We at Deutsche Telekom AG Laboratories demonstrated a similiar image recognition based application with a cell phone client at IFA 2007, Berlin.
( http://www.deutsche-telekom-laboratories.de/~srahul/VCG/ )
Funny that our competitor presents it now on the next big german exhibition. Anyway, I’m quite impressed that already have a deal with the tabloid newspaper BILD!
Thanks.
Yes, the press works in its own ways.
By the way, this has been a general area that has seen interesting talks and is slowly coming to the stage where things may in fact become practical.
See my post: http://ngs.ics.uci.edu/blog/?p=552 on a related topic from some time ago.
Yes, the press works in its own ways.