a looking-glass book

session 4

Memory Cues for Meeting Video Retrieval - Alejandro Jaimes, Kengo Omura, Takeshi Nagamine, Kazutaka Hirata

Total Recall: Are Privacy Changes Inevitable? a position paper - William Cheng, Leana Golubchik, David Kay

meeting review tools, how can we leverage video to get info out of it? video is never used now to review what happens in meetings (events).

this first presentation seems very geared, like the business one in the previous session, focused on making video and content and computers into personal assistants.

there seems to be a drive to push the desktop computer away from desktop and more towards a shoebox. a collection of data that you pull up. memex memex memex. i wonder if this is to be the future of computing.

again, this goes back to the 2 uses for this stuff - personal assistant vs sharing experiences.

the front end for this demo is in flash. and it seems mostly graphical, to be used for business meetings. employee faces and layouts of rooms are shown. you drag images into the 'search box' to get info back. an interesting way to search on a limited dataset.

it also shows the camera location when you play the video back and you can pick scenes and speakers. and seating arrangements.

pretty cool, but somewhat niche.

they are doing basic motion tracking for a lot of the actions. also cool, but then there will be someone complaining that we are being taught to behave a certain way to get the system to function. i think its needed on this first step, but id like to see if it could be gotten away from down the road.

again, these guys are ignoring audio. its weird that audio and video are being worked on so independently. be nice when they each get to a good point and someone matches them up. i like the idea of searching the video of my life for quotes people said. now thats some good stuff.

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holy crap.

this lecture, the second one, is from usc/imsc/isi/cs.
their project - total recall
ill have to talk to her after her presentation. this is incredible.
i might have found my lawyers and info. wow.

i had to fly across the country, to find out someone is working on this literally in my own backyard. and they want to record everything in someone's life.

this could be a match made in heaven; they still seem to be lacking the entertainment content.

excuse me while i try not to make loud, happy noises in my seat.

and scott (or anyone) - did you know about this project?

mann brings up nonwillful blindness. (encrypting video with a key that is held in part by numerous people who hand it over as long as mann is not under duress. forces the system to subpenoa the entire universe to unlock a video)

didnt post much about this one, mainly because its local to us and ill be speaking to them soon i am sure.