Google Translate welcomes you to the Indic web

Posted by Ashish Venugopal, Research Scientist (Cross-posted on the Translate Blog and the Official Google Blog) Beginning today, you can explore the linguistic diversity of the Indian sub-continent with Google Translate, which now supports five new experimental alpha languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu. In India and Bangladesh alone, more than 500 million people speak these five languages. Since 2009, we’ve launched a...

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Auto-Directed Video Stabilization with Robust L1 Optimal Camera Paths

Posted by Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, and Irfan Essa, Research TeamEarlier this year, we announced the launch of new features on the YouTube Video Editor, including stabilization for shaky videos, with the ability to preview them in real-time. The core technology behind this feature is detailed in this paper, which will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011).Casually shot videos captured by handheld or mobile cameras suffer from significant amount of shake. Existing in-camera...

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Google at CVPR 2011

Posted by Mei Han and Sergey Ioffe, Research TeamThe computer vision community will get together in Colorado Springs the week of June 20th for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011). This year will see a record number of people attending the conference and 27 co-located workshops and tutorials. The registration was closed at 1500 attendees even before the conference started.Computer Vision is at the core of many Google products, such as Image Search, YouTube, Street View, Picasa, and Goggles, and...

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Our first round of Google Research Awards for 2011

Posted by Maggie Johnson, Director of Education & University Relations We’ve just finished awarding the latest round of Google Research Awards, which provide funding to full-time faculty working on research in areas of mutual interest with Google. A record number of submissions came in this round, and we are delighted to be funding 112 awards across 21 different focus areas for a total of more than $6.75 million. The subject areas that received the highest level of support were systems and infrastructure, human computer interaction, Geo/maps...

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Instant Mix for Music Beta by Google

Posted by Douglas Eck, Research ScientistMusic Beta by Google was announced at the Day One Keynote of Google I/O 2011. This service allows users to stream their music collections from the cloud to any supported device, including a web browser. It’s a first step in creating a platform that gives users a range of compelling music experiences. One key component of the product, Instant Mix, is a playlist generator developed by Google Research. Instant Mix uses machine hearing to extract attributes from audio which can be used to answer questions...

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After the award: students and mentors

Posted by Leslie Yeh Johnson, University Relations ManagerFor the past two years, we’ve looked forward to honoring the best and the brightest graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees around the globe through Google’s fellowship program. We’re thrilled to be supporting these students with a monetary gift, but what happens after the awards are given out?An important component of our fellowship program is the Google research mentor. Each fellowship student is paired with a full-time Googler based on mutual research interests. The idea is that the...

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