February 25, 2014, San Francisco—Wade Baker from Verizon outlined the contents of the latest DBIR. The reporting and participating groups are now up to 50 contributors across the world and include forensics, vendors, various CERTs, police, and other investigative organizations. This report has been published since 2008 and has grown over time. Some of the…
February 4, 2014, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Jack Gallant from the University of California, Berkeley described his research into the human vision system. These efforts are important because computer vision and human vision are similar in some ways and very different in most others. One quarter of our brain is associated with vision. Comparing brains…
October 29. 2013, GamesBeat Conference, Redwood City, CA—Michael Metzger from Covert and Company had a chat with Steve Wadsworth from Tapjoy. They discussed the need to build a mobile business for revenue and effective user acquisition. How are mobile ads driving the mobile space? First, advertising wants to be where the people are. They want…
May 17, 2013, Music Meets Science Forum, SwissNex, San Francisco—Brennon Bortz from Virginia Technical University presented their research results in music, sensors, and emotion. The work involves many sensors and other technologies as well as a range of experiments. Controlling music from biofeedback is now relatively easy. The difficulty is in tracking gestures and emotion…
May 17, 2013, Music Meets Science Forum, SwissNex, San Francisco—Eduardo Coutinho from the University of Geneva is working to extract the features that evoke emotions in music and voice. Eventually they want to predict which sonic features affect specific emotional responses. In speech, we can detect changes in tone and pitch to understand feelings without…
August 23, 2010 — Hot Chips conference, Stanford California, the first keynote address at the conference was from David Petrou from Google. His talk entitled “search originating inside and outside your head” described their efforts at developing Google Goggles, an application for mobile visual search. Goggles is attempting to develop the capability of searching by…