While automatic techniques are being developed, it maybe useful to develop manual tagging techniques for ‘random access’ to video. Most sites assign tags to complete videos — that is not much useful because for videos it will be useful to…
Tagging videos
EventWeb: Towards events
Two things are distinct in emerging applications of information systems: they contain vast amount of multimedia (both live and archived) data and attention is moving away from examining isolated silos of data toward more holistic pictures of evolving situations. Multimedia…
Live Art
CNN reports on a project: British and American computer scientists have developed artwork that changes according to how the viewer feels. Special software picks up facial cues and adapts the color and brush strokes of the digital image. I like…
Words: Visual words
Earlier this week I visited Prof. JiangPing Fan’s group at University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He has been working on developing image segmentation and classification approaches for annotating images. (Disclosure: I am intereacting with him in this research, but my…
Photo Albums into Navigable 3-D worlds
Microsoft intends to release a system based on research at U Washington to convert people’s photos into navigable worlds. See report on this here. This application called Photosynth lets people import photos, either from their own collection or via a…