A modern digital camera is no longer just a simple pinhole camera (the old camera obscura model) that records only optical information about the environment as a projection of intensity values on a chemical surface. A modern day digital camera,…
Creating a Photo Eco System: The problem
Have you noticed that all major search engines list Web, images, and video above the keyword box in that order? And that the text search (wrongly called Web) works quite well but the image search is poor? Â Also, have…
Digital Camera Sensitivity
Kodak has announced a major breakthrough in designing digital cameras. A news.com story reports: Eastman Kodak has developed a relatively straightforward change to digital camera image sensors that could help with a major photography bugaboo: poor performance in dim conditions.…
Multimedia Evidences for Events
Amarnath Gupta gave a keynote talk at Computer Vision and Data Bases (CVDB) workshop help with SIGMOD conference in Beijing, China, I missed the talk, but he was kind enough to send me his presentation. Very interesting presentation – you…
Camera with WiFi
It had to happen — News.com reports that there are soon going to be memory cards with WiFi connectivity to upload your photos to a site or your computer directly from your camera using this memory card. This will definitely…