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- Computer Vision
- Using a computer to capture and analyze images. There are numerous applications of computer vision, including robotic systems that sense their environment, people detection in surveillance systems, object inspection...
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- Finding where a photo has been shot
- It's not the first time that Carnegie Mellon University CMU researchers play with Flickr image collections. Last year, they've used Flickr to edit our photos. Now, they're trying to estimate the geographic location of a single photo by comparing it to a database of 6 million pictures accurately geolocated by...
- Tags: Algorithm, Carnegie-Mellon University, Flickr, Vision, Photograph, Image, Computer, Computer Vision, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Of Welsh swimmers and computer vision
- Poseiden, a computer-based vision system from VisionIQ recently detected a suspiciously still girl at the bottom of a 12-foot-deep Welsh pool and alerted lifeguards, who proceeded to save her from drowning . (In the hurly-burly of the crowded pool, the lifeguards had missed seeing the stationary form.)So what?After many years...
- Tags: vision, computer vision, Welsh
- Blog posts 2005-10-12
Additional Resources
- Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?
- My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...
- Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- The HP-MySpace deal: Who needs this most? Not MySpace users.
- HP and MySpace are partnering to "unlock the content of MySpace" by giving users the tools to print their pictures. You know, like to a printer. Hopefully, wink wink an HP printer. On the surface, this sounds like a good plan. There are billions of images that...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Photograph, Image, MySpace, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- TRO hearing today on RealDVD
- Federal Judge Marilyn Patel will hear arguments today on whether Real should be temporarily restrained from selling its RealDVD copying software. The software has been unavailable since Friday, when the Hollywood studios won an emergency halt on sales, a move that Real claims caused them "irreparable harm." ...
- Tags: DVD, RealDVD, Real, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Does the Semantic Web matter?
- My business card reads 'Technology Evangelist,' and this is a blog about the Semantic Web. So that should be an unequivocal 'Yes!' then, right? However, it's frequently worthwhile to revisit and question presumptions, beliefs and 'truths,' and the Semantic Web that dominates so much of my working...
- Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- From the vault: Lisa demo
- From my forthcoming book, Corporations that Changed the World: Apple Inc. After a tour of the Xerox PARC Palo Alto Research Center laboratories in December 1979 and a demonstration of their Alto computer, Steve Jobs decided that the Graphical User Interface GUI was the future of computing. Apple traded...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Xerox PARC, Lisa, Productivity, Podcasts, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homework
- Considering my background, it's not at all hard to understand how I've become the tech support helpdesk for family, friends and the neighborhood as a whole. I've done my best to accept my lot in life with grace and courage. This time, my Grandson, Steven, was trying to complete a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft PowerPoint, Laptop Computer, Steven, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Talkback Tuesday: Mobile Malware
- Last week I wrote two posts about why I was not concerned about mobile malware right now, but I expected mobile malware to become a problem in the near future. There were several responses to the two posts, including the following: Phatkat writes: Most...
- Tags: Mobile, Malware, Mobile Device, Mobile Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments
- I realize Advanced Micro Devices has some news in the offing this week that likely will supersede the urgency of this blog's content, but I wanted to recount some high points from a conversation I had about two weeks ago with Larry Vertal, the company's senior strategist when it comes...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Larry Vertal, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A
- There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...
- Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Test drive: First checkpoint-friendly computer bag
- Back in August TSA issued new guidelines for travelers with notebook computers that would, for the first time, allow passengers to keep them in their bags while passing through the x-ray scanner. The TSA implemented its checkpoint-friendly bag policy on 16 August 2008 and to qualify as...
- Tags: Computer, Tom Bihn, CheckPoint Flyer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Welcome to the Data Cloud ?
- 'The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...
- Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
- The indictments are part of the FBI's Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US's first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with a 2003 distributed denial-of-service attack that...
- Tags: FBI, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Operation Cyberslam, Gembe, Federal Government, Government, security, botnet, cybercrime, DOS, attacks, Matthew Broersma, ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-10-06
- The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed
- On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT -- because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come -- the move is another symbolic nail in Vista's coffin....
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., IT Department, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Why bother with desktop virtualization?
- The proponents of making proper use of desktop virtualization technology including access virtualization, application virtualization and VDI the combination of access virtualization and processing virtualization do their best to make it sound like the best things since pockets. Aren't today's laptops, desktops and handheld devices good enough to get the...
- Tags: Desktop, Worker, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
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