Advances in technology result in societal transformations. Paradoxically, advances in technology often result in creation of new problems, while solving some existing problems. This is very clear in several areas being influenced by rapid advances in computing. Computer vision and…
Current Research Challenges in Computer Vision and Multimedia
The Power of Pull
The Power of Pull by J. Hagel III, JS Brown, and L Davison is a thought provoking book. A good read. It shows that the Edge has become more central to knowledge than the Core. Core is important but real…
Social Pixels
In a paper written by Vivek Singh, Mingyan Gao, and yours truly, to be presented at ACM Multimedia Conference in Florence, we present the concept of Social Pixels and their implications in understanding and extending social media. Social pixels could…
Content Without COntext is Meaningless
With Pinaki Sinha, I just finished a research paper titled: Content Without Context is Meaningless. Its abstract reads: We revisit one of the most fundamental problems in multimedia that is receiving enormous attention from researchers without making much progress in…
Milkshake, Drunk Researcher, and Problem Solving
Let me paraphrase a famous story in the context of research, with an example from computer vision and multimedia. A drunken multimedia researcher loses the keys to his house and is looking for them under a lamppost. Another researcher comes…