There is a an interesting interview ¡°Hyperlinking the World¡± of Dr. Hartmut Neven at http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101341&ref=5292898 Dr. Neven is a computer vision expert and he argues that cameras, even in the phones, can be used to take pictures that could be…
Hyperlinking the world using computer vision
Answers not research
Almost all search engines provide us links to information sources, they don¡¯t provide us information. This does not bother many people who grew up in the culture and when they are looking for something that they are not very sure…
Moratorium on metadata?
In the recent issue of IEEE Multimedia Magazine, Dick Bulterman wrote a very interesting piece ¡°Is it Time for a Moratorium on Metadata?¡±. Dick is a very well known researcher in multimedia authoring environment and was a leader in the…
meta data for multimedia
Meta data should be considered broadly in two different classes. There is meta data about a document, an image, a sound file, a video file, or any other sensor file. This meta data is about the whole file. Thus who…
Metadata, text, and multimedia
Based on research literature, trade literature, and even popular press it is very easy to get the impression that semantics will be no issue because we are now going to attach metadata to all forms of data. It appears that…