The money trail of big tech pay-offs began with voice, then moved to text and now is headed squarely to image data. No longer are businesses or individuals satisfied with words on a page peppered with flat and lifeless 2-D images. Today’s big data boost is far more colorful and dynamic than that. In the beginning days of image processing, art and photographs were reproduced in shades of gray as though they were nothing more than disfigured text. Fax machines and scanners reproduced images that often looked like indistinguishable black blobs as subtleties bled together in low-resolution mimicry.
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Picture This: Image Processing Grows Up
Posted by: Pam Baker October 29, 2008 04:00 AMThe money trail of big tech pay-offs began with voice, then moved to text and now is headed squarely to image data. No longer are businesses or individuals satisfied with words on a page peppered with flat and lifeless 2-D images. Today’s big data boost is far more colorful and dynamic than that. In the beginning days of image processing, art and photographs were reproduced in shades of gray as though they were nothing more than disfigured text. Fax machines and scanners reproduced images that often looked like indistinguishable black blobs as subtleties bled together in low-resolution mimicry.