Just came back from XiD, a face processing company in Singapore. I am advisor to this company so my views are not totally objective, but I am trying to be as objective as possible in this post. Face detection and…
Visual Search
In the days of Folksonomy, it is noce to see researchers report interesting progress that could lead to automatic tagging and image feature based searches rather than human assigned tag only. A recent article describes success with Gesture recognition work…
More video coming
Now Reuter will also allow their video to be used by others. Along with CNN’s efforts, this may start bringing more video reports on the Web. And yes, Blinkx is also going to allow you to download things to iPod.…
From Gopher to Google for EventWeb
In the context of how some new things are evolving and emerging in the Web related areas, it is very interesting to revisit how the Web evolved and transformed our lives for ever. Just a little more than a decade…
Live Video on CNN — Glimpse into the Future
CNN has launched a premium service, Pipeline, that has live video of developing News. This is an interesting glimpse into the nature of things that are likely to happen in the future. The killer app for Pipeline is four live…