So the target has come down from $100 to $12 for a computer that will help third world countries. This is also from a MIT group. The $100 computer never came down to $100, but this one is now only…
Co-Space
Singapore decided to invest s$500 Millin in promoting Interactive Digital Media field. Michael Yap is a key person in this effort and is providing vision and leadership in this area. Now I have attended multiple talks by him and had…
TinEye — An Image Search Engine
My student Arjun Satish pointed me to a new image search engine on the Web — www.tineye.com — which takes an image or a url from you and searches for that image on the web. It claims to look at…
MIR 1: Data Sets
I have been thinking a bit about multimedia information retrieval. So there maybe a few posts related to this topic. I will start by saying that it has been nice to see that there is a nice data set that…
Hypelinking Videos — Google getting into it
The idea of creating hyperlinks in videos has been around for long time. Many people tried to create such links using either annotations or content analysis. It did not become mainstream so far. AUtomatic techniques were not ready for prime…