While considering several applications, particularly related to surveillance and monitoring in these days of increasing web cameras due to terrorism, I felt that there is an interesting breed of systems that need to be considered as a class. That may…
Observation Systems
Future Media (Video)
Today NY Times has two interesting articles that are related to the future of media or video. One article by Geraldine Fabrikant [ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/business/media/01value.html?th&emc=th ] talks about the future of Media companies — an interesting quote from this article is:…
Talk: Practical Apps of Multimedia Search
I gave the Key Note talk at International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval. The talk was “Practical Applications of Multimedia Searchâ€?. I have put the presentation – except the live demos and websites that I used in my talk…
The power of nature
Mumbai in monsoon could be an experience – and I had it first hand though only to a limited extent. I came to Mumbai on my way to Bangalore on Tuesday July 26th. My flight from Nagpur was delayed by…
Photo Database
The process of conversion of information in cyberspace from only textual to multimedia continues. Now big phot collections of historical importance have announced that they will have a strong database. NY Times article gives details of this. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/arts/design/20east.html? This is…