While playing with my Android, and later with iPhone, I realized how much improvement has taken place in the camera technology in these devices – also in other mobile phones. One gets a fairly decent camera in a phone, and…
Quantifying Semantic Gap
One hears commonly about the semantic gap, and approaches to bridging it, but never hears about quantifying it and using that in developing better recognition system. I don’t know how to do it, but want to at least think os…
Photos are about Events
When you see something interesting happening, you take out your camera, now your mobile phone, and click. And that becomes your secondary visual memory. Clicking your phone camera is effortless and costs you almost zero. So now you take many…
Events are ‘transparent’
Some things are so obvious that we do not notice them. I have been working on organizing images, videos, and related experiential information for quite some time. All efforts by us, like all other researchers, revolved around the information that…
Transformation or Froth: Visual Communication
Almost everyday a new photo related application is prominently in News. Mobile phone cameras have pushed photography to new heights in its utilization and excitement. This has been going on for quite some time now. One can not help but…