I shared my thoughts on Multimedia Semantic Web at the International Semantic Web Conference in Karlsruhe. See the conference information here. This was the first Keynote Talk of the conference, and was attended by more than 600 people. You can…
Models and descriptions
Wikipedia defines some important characteristics of models and descriptions. On model it says: A model in science is a physical, mathematical, or logical representation of a system of entities, phenomena, or processes. Basically a model is a simplified abstract view…
Meeting Prof. H.-H. Nagel
I had a chance to meet Prof. Hans Helmut Nagel today for dinner. I met him after about 25 years — but during the dinner it felt that we have been meeting regularly. It was one of the most memorable…
Multimedia Semantics — Bridging the Semantic Gap
In “Content-Based Image Retrieval at the End of the Early Years Found in: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Arnold Smeulders , Marcel Worring , Simone Santini , Amarnath Gupta , Ramesh Jain December 2000” the semantic gap was…
United India?
When I was growig up in India, the direction India was going was towards one India — the direction was to remove walls created by religion and regionalism. Things appeared to be going in that direction and it appeared that…