Listening to different aspects of ‘Computer Vision in Developing Countries’ at the workshop with this name was exciting. Clearly time has come to apply visual computing techniques to many industrial problems in developing countries. But more important is to develop some disruptive innovative approaches to solve problems in this space. Mobile phones equipped with cameras and microphones are the driver of next generation of such computing. I always believed that this will open up many innovative uses of this new generation computing (based on mobile phones, vision, and audio) that will take computing to the next Billion much faster and in more relevant ways. After listening to talks at this workshop, it became clear to me that this is starting to happen and NOW is the right time to do this.
My own talk resulted in good questions and discussion. I have included my presentation here. Your comments and reactions will be most appreciated.