nickel
29-02-2008, 04:34 PM
Modern mobile phones are power houses of Visual Computing. For visual output, they provide a high-quality color display, and some models have dedicated hardware for 2D and 3D computer graphics. For visual input they have good digital cameras, both still and video. And they provide a fast CPU, some models even an FPU, as well as C++, Python, and Java programming environments. The Visual Computing and User Interfaces (VCUI) team studies how these visual capabilities can be harnessed for exciting applications.
[More, though not much more, about Nokia's Visual Computing here (http://research.nokia.com/researchteams/vcui/).]
Of more interest is the BBC video (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7260000/newsid_7266300?redirect=7266342.stm&news=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&nbram=1&asb=1) about translation through your mobile. You know, mobile > OCR > translation. Spicy chicken dice.
[More, though not much more, about Nokia's Visual Computing here (http://research.nokia.com/researchteams/vcui/).]
Of more interest is the BBC video (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7260000/newsid_7266300?redirect=7266342.stm&news=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&nbram=1&asb=1) about translation through your mobile. You know, mobile > OCR > translation. Spicy chicken dice.