Memories for Life and Live Memories are two projects in UK and Trento Italy, respectively, that are working on similar things and hence are now coming closer. I was invited to attend their meeting because of my interest in similar…
Aggregating user generated video
In attending a meeting of the petamedia project and listening to different ideas, it is clear that a major research problem that is emerging is how to utilize enormous volumes fo video and other multimedia data produced by users. Two…
In London
London is a fascinating place — vibrant and very cosmoplitan. I always enjoy coming to London, but just it happens that I am here after about 6-7 years. Todays was my second day so have not seen much of London.…
Similarity search introduced by Google
A major step in the direction of combining context and content has been taken by Google. They introduced similarity search. So after you search for images using tradition Google image search, you could then ask for similar images. It will…
Connections among Events
When thinking about how things happen in the world, it is interesting to relate how events are related. Many times it is difficult to predict how an event in one part of the world can have catastrophic (or wonderful) consequences…