Since Google + came in and introduced circles in a playful manner, people seem to be fascinated by circles. I like them, but they are not what they appear to be. I want much more from my circles. It is…
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…
Honored, surprised, and then some thoughts
A colleague of mine mentioned that I am listed in a List of Computer Scientists on Wikipedia. I visited the list and must say that I am honored and surprised. Honored is obvious — and surprised is because I never…