News.com has a story on Videoconferencing for seniors. This article features my good friend Ruzena Bajcsy. “Currently, videoconferencing is very limited. It just shows your face or a small image, and is not very robust,” said Bajcsy, an electrical-engineering and…
E2E: Environment-to-Environment communications
Much communication started as a person-to-person and then became from a person-to-many-persons. This was then mediated by devices. That brought to us the age of device-to-device communication. Telephones, radios, television, and many similar techniques are enhancements and extensions of person-to-person approaches using…
A picture is worth a thousand lies
Yes, it is easy to lie using pictures — possibly more effective than with statistics. Interesting article and interview at News.com gives a nice introduction to this area. Â
Fast Image Similarity Search
Hitachi announced a fast image similarity search — a million images can be searched in 1 second.  Hitachi Ltd. has developed a search technology that can find images similar to a specified image from millions of images and video data…
Large Scale cut-and-paste to enhance photos
It had to happen — so I am happy to read about it. To enhance an image or prepae an image one can use the large volume of photos on the web and cut correct part from those to paste…