Show and Tell: Imagining the User Experience Beyond Point, Click, and Type
New technologies are being developed everyday which have the potential to bring revolutionary changes in interaction with digital world. Some of the technologies which are already in use...
Video
Viewdle created its facial recognition software to index digital video, allowing owners of DV content to extract meta data from their libraries without manually reviewing and tagging the video recordings. So, if you have hours of uncatalogued digital footage of news and entertainment shows, Viewdle could review and tag your video with people’s names.
Image
Photosynth, a Microsoft Live Labs product, is capable of picture analysis that can piece together related photos in three-dimensional space.
Music
Just as big strides in video- and photo-recognition software are changing the landscape of visual data, developments in audio recognition and analysis are similarly reshaping the way computers enter the world of sound.
There is a tech startup called Platinum Blue that consults for companies in the music business. Record executives have tended to be Humean: though they can tell you how they feel when they listen to a song, they don’t believe anyone can know with confidence whether a song is going to be a hit, and, historically, fewer than 20% of the songs picked as hits by music executives have fulfilled those expectations.
Platinum Blue thinks it can do better. It has a proprietary computer program that uses ‘spectral deconvolution software’ to measure the mathematical relationships among all of a song’s structural components: melody, harmony, beat, tempo, rhythm, octave, pitch, chord progression, cadence, sonic brilliance, frequency, and so on. On the basis of that analysis, the firm believes it can predict whether a song is likely to become a hit with eighty-percent accuracy.”
Voice
Microsoft Sync recognizes the voice commands of drivers, allowing them to make mobile phone calls or play specific songs in their iPod music collections hands free.
Video
Viewdle created its facial recognition software to index digital video, allowing owners of DV content to extract meta data from their libraries without manually reviewing and tagging the video recordings. So, if you have hours of uncatalogued digital footage of news and entertainment shows, Viewdle could review and tag your video with people’s names.
Image
Photosynth, a Microsoft Live Labs product, is capable of picture analysis that can piece together related photos in three-dimensional space.
Music
Just as big strides in video- and photo-recognition software are changing the landscape of visual data, developments in audio recognition and analysis are similarly reshaping the way computers enter the world of sound.
There is a tech startup called Platinum Blue that consults for companies in the music business. Record executives have tended to be Humean: though they can tell you how they feel when they listen to a song, they don’t believe anyone can know with confidence whether a song is going to be a hit, and, historically, fewer than 20% of the songs picked as hits by music executives have fulfilled those expectations.
Platinum Blue thinks it can do better. It has a proprietary computer program that uses ‘spectral deconvolution software’ to measure the mathematical relationships among all of a song’s structural components: melody, harmony, beat, tempo, rhythm, octave, pitch, chord progression, cadence, sonic brilliance, frequency, and so on. On the basis of that analysis, the firm believes it can predict whether a song is likely to become a hit with eighty-percent accuracy.”
Voice
Microsoft Sync recognizes the voice commands of drivers, allowing them to make mobile phone calls or play specific songs in their iPod music collections hands free.
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