I am leaving for Brazil — will be giving the first talk at a workshop on Computer Vision in Developing Countries. Computer vision can play a very central role in developing next generation computing that will extend benefits of computing and…
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…
Image Search in multiple languages
An obvious approach for multilingual search that has not been used as much as is possible is to convert a term in to its equivalents in multiple languages and search accordingly. This approach has been used for image recognition by…
Face Recognition Engine
XiD Tech won a competition for all Asian and Australian compunies in security market.  XiD has this powerful technology to create multiple (several hundreds) possible appearences of a person based on one or just a few facial images. This is…