Scholarpedia

Just discovered (and signed up for) Scholarpedia, a peer-reviewed and rigorously managed alternative to Wikipedia (and some of the criticism it receives when used as authoritative source, see e.g. the article "Why you can't cite Wikipedia in my class” by Neil L. Waters).

I came to it through the entry on Visual Salience, whose curator is Laurent Itti. 

First joint paper!

My colleague Mathias Lux, his student Arthur Pitman, and I have just finished (in record time!) our first joint paper: "Using Visual Features to Improve Tag Suggestions in Image Sharing Sites", which has been submitted to KASW 2008.

I am very pleased with this concrete outcome of our collaborative efforts, shortly after they've started. I look forward to the implementation and evaluation stages of this project and -- hopefully -- to many other papers and projects to come.