I am visiting Singapore to work with some top researchers, who also happen to be nice people, for a few weeks. This is the first time I will be living in a condo so I will experience a bit of…
Living in Singapore
CNN YouTube Debates
Who could imagine just a year (or much less say 6 months) ago that there will be an event called CNN YouTube debates that will be very popular (for example see the story in News.com)? YouTube has definitely become an…
Wow factor in photo technologies at Microsoft
Microsoft research group always ahd a strong image processing/computer vision component. They now have a strong WoW technology in: HD View is one photo project that definitely has the “wow” factor. The technology allows users to combine hundreds of photos…
Research in Computer Vision (and many other fields)
Long ago I wrote an article ‘ignorance, myopia, and naivete in computer vision’ (with Tom Binford) on the state or research in around 1989. This article became quite controversial at that time. In some context I looked at the article…
From Killer Apps to Platform
News.com has a nice story on how several companies have used the approach of satrting with an application and when it becomes popular to convert it to a platform to really make it popular. “The Internet is the new operating…