• Archive for July, 2006

    Finding new music: Pandora and Last.fm

    by  • July 26, 2006 • Sites • 0 Comments

    I enjoy finding new music and have been interested in services such as Pandora and Last.fm for awhile. These sites analyze your listening habits (Last.fm) and preferences (Pandora) and suggest new music accordingly. Last.fm provides a plugin for music players such as iTunes and shows your songs people with similar tastes have. Pandora analyzes the [...]

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    Back from Toronto

    by  • July 14, 2006 • Personal • 1 Comment

    I’ve just returned from Toronto! It was a very productive trip. It was also exhausting. Many interesting experts attended the conference and the lectures were quite good. Next year’s ICME conference will be held in Beijing! Here are some pictures from the trip. Please be patient while they load – they are high resolution. I’m [...]

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    Off to Toronto

    by  • July 4, 2006 • Personal • 0 Comments

    I’ll be in Toronto from July 6th to July 12th presenting at the 2006 ICME conference. I have two papers there, “On the potential of incorporating knowledge of human visual attention into CBIR systems” and “Challenges and opportunities in video coding for 3D TV”. This is my first time in Toronto.

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