I am back in USA after attending a conference and a mini-vacation in Greece. Greece is a very interesting country — only 10M population, but because of its history and current name it sounds much bigger. It is definitely a…
Greece Vacation
Words: The BoW
With increasing popularity of video, approaches are being explored to convert speech to text so textual approaches could be used. Interestingly, most speech to text systems work very well when in speech there are minimal emotions. So our search engines…
Words: The world of words
( I will be posting my thoughts on Words and Multimedia Search. There will be a few posts on this topic. Here is the first one.) Words are important. Words have been important in human society for the longest time…
In Greece
I am attending Multimedia Semantics workshop in Chania, Crete. I came here on Sunday and will be here until Wednesday. Then will be in Athens for 3 days. On the way back will be stopping in Washington for 4 days.…
Capturing Experiences
An interesting article in the sequence of lifelog and eChronicles on capturing experiences. This is a trend that is going to emerge — what form it will take remains to be seen.