Oktoberfest is an environment to be experienced — this is all about German (or Bavarian) passion for Beer. I joined the MM 2007 Organizing team for this famous Munich Oktober fest (which always takes place in September). In a tent…
Oktoberfest
Attending ACM Multimedia 2007
ACM Multimedia 2007 is in Augsburg, Germany. Augsburg is about 1hour car/train ride from Munich. I arrived here yesterday and met some friends from this community. Looking forward to the 4 busy days at the conference. But before that is…
Losing friends
My childhood friend Prakash from Nagpur, India, called and told me that in the last month two of my school and college friends, Ashok Yadav and Indrakumar Khakhar suddently died. Ashok got rectal cancer and Indu had a heart attack. …
Semantics in Multimedia
The first IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing was help earlier this week in Irvine. I attended part of it and participated in it. As computing is evolving, semantics is playing increasing tole. In the emerging computing systems ordinary humans…
Computer vision applications in cameras
Sony now has technology to take pictures only when people smile — see the News article. Clearly computer vision technology has started finding interesting applications. I think this is only the beginning. Computer vision can find many applications in different…