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A Visual Search Engine for iPhone

Today kooaba released their iPhone client. It’s a visual search engine – you take a picture of something, and get search results. The YouTube clip below shows it in action.  Since this is the kind of...

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“But I’m Not Lost!”– Adoption Challenges for Visual Search

I’m still rather excited about yesterday’s kooaba launch. I’ve been thinking about how long this technology will take to break into the mainstream, and it strikes me that getting people to adopt it is...

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Computer Vision in the Elastic Compute Cloud

In a datacenter somewhere on the other side of the planet, a rack-mounted computer is busy hunting for patterns in photographs of Oxford.  It is doing this for 10 cents an hour, with more RAM and more...

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Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford

I’ll be at Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford all day today. This has been an excellent event in previous years, and there is a strong line-up again this year. Anyone interested in visual search...

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Posts of the Year

As I make arrangements to close down things in the lab and prepare for a bit of turkey and ham, I thought I’d put up some of my favourite blog posts from the last year: Top of the list is Bob Mottram‘s...

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Fun with Robots

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Willow Garage. So as they get ready to ship their first PR2 robots, here’s a gratuitous video of the pre-release testing: This second video is a nice overview of...

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The Universal Robotic Gripper

I just saw a video of device that consists of nothing more than a rubber balloon, some coffee grounds and a pump. I’m pretty sure it’s going to change robotics forever. Have a look: It’s a wonderful...

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Building a DIY Street View Car

A little blast from the past here. Several years ago I built something very like a Google Street View car to gather data for my PhD thesis. At the time I wrote up a blog post about the experience, as a...

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Startups

Imagine you’re a road engineer and you’re designing an access road for a new town. The town will soon be built in a previously uninhabited area. You’ve managing the construction project, but...

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Pointy

Two and a half years ago I left Google and set out to build a new kind of search engine. This may sound a little crazy, but all the best things are like that :-) We’ve been avoiding the tech press and...

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