Yahoo's vote of confidence for manual tagging |
| 12/9/2008 3:59:26 AM |
Interesting to see Yahoo's launched VideoTagGame:
getting humans to tag sections within a video, to see what terms they use to describe it...........
just as Google did with Google Image Labeler. (See link below).
Yahoo's calling it the VideoTagGame, and it's now available publicly through the Yahoo! Sandbox.
At least 3 people are involved watching a... Read More |
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Idea: 3D advertising application |
| 11/6/2008 11:43:16 PM |
I just learned from web guru Mike Seyfang (http://mikeseyfang.com) about a very cool piece of software: Video Trace.
It lets you create 3D representations of objects appearing in videos, for example a car, or the Sydney Opera House.
Both of these examples are in the great demo video here:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=vda2RAEuW_g
You use your mouse to... Read More |
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The future of browsing |
| 8/21/2008 9:49:12 PM |
Great video talk from TED.com here by a guy called Blaise Aguera y Arcas http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
He demonstrates his technology that takes something as complex as a whole book, and lets you zoom in closer and closer on any part of it from afar, and read it with the same clarity as if you hadn't had to zoom in on it at all.
Then... Read More |
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Contextual tags and browsing video |
| 5/11/2008 10:46:31 PM |
The different contexts through which we see the world can be fascinating and profound. Think: Saddam Hussein as cosy ally (1983) vs Saddam Hussein as an axis of evil (2003).
And different contexts present a huge challenge when it comes to searching video: if a picture paints a thousand words, and video clocks up 24 pictures a second, we’re talkin’... Read More |
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