It seems I am in the mood of telling stories about storytelling. Storytelling has gone through many different forms and is now going through a major transformation. This is not surprising because the medium of story telling has always been…
Photos are about Events
When you see something interesting happening, you take out your camera, now your mobile phone, and click. And that becomes your secondary visual memory. Clicking your phone camera is effortless and costs you almost zero. So now you take many…
Managing Event Information: A book.
Amarnath Gupta, my long term partner in crime in multimedia information retrieval and I are about to finish a book: Managing Event Information. This book is a result of our efforts to discuss emerging information management systems to represent real…
Events are ‘transparent’
Some things are so obvious that we do not notice them. I have been working on organizing images, videos, and related experiential information for quite some time. All efforts by us, like all other researchers, revolved around the information that…