I’ve been working on this problem of image retrieval since before digital images became commonly available to the average consumer. Now digital photos are not only available, they’re part of everybody’s lifestyle. And in this time, we’ve not developed any…
Photo Eco System: I need to solve my problem
Photo Eco System: Analyzing digital photos
The most important factor is that even the most powerful visual system known to humans— the human visual system—uses all kinds of metadata. Also, it’s well known that humans first use peripheral vision to form a general idea about what…
User Generated Stock Photos
With user generated content coming everywhere, why not stock photos. In a story at News.com Stephan Shankland reports: The site, called SnapVillage, differs from several of its rivals by letting photographers set their own prices from a range of options:…
Searching Sportscasts
Technology Review reports a project to search sports video.  The articles starts by saying: A new kind of visual-search engine has been developed to automatically scour sports footage for clips showing specific types of action and events. According to its…
Offline Social Networks
Before social networks came online and many Intenet age people starte thinking that Social Networks is an Intenet phenomena, there used to be social network in real life. It appears that Internet social networkers are realizing that social networks exist…