A*STAR showcases 12 breakthrough infocomm technologies at CommunicAsia 2009

Look out for a technology that enables you to control who can view/edit your pictures after someone has downloaded them off, say, your website or social networking page. Also check out a smart image recognition software that can tell you what an image "means". And not to be missed is a smart search technology, which will give users more than just relevant hits. Stop by A*STAR CommunicAsia 2009 booth and experience how infocomm technologies can enhance your lifestyle!

Twelve novel ready-for-market technologies, which will improve the quality of life for users in industry verticals such as lifestyle, security, communications and healthcare, have been developed by A*STAR's (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R). They will be showcased at the upcoming CommunicAsia 2009, from 16 to 19 June 2009 at Singapore Expo Hall 3, Booth 3E2-01.

More notable among the group of I2R technologies are KnowleSuite, Snap2Tell / Snap2Play and SUSie (Share & UnShare, it's easy). These technologies seek to alleviate some of the pressing IT issues today that are faced by millions around like world, including professionals, avid social media fans and even tourists.

KnowleSuite is a toolbox consisting of applications for automated knowledge search, capture and aggregation. Targeted at knowledge-intensive workers, the suite automates the process of knowledge acquisition and allows users to spend more time in value-adding analysis of the information than its acquisition.

Snap2Tell technology is an Image Recognition Engine that recognises images of scenes / objects without the need of labelling or putting barcode on the Point of Interest (POI); and associates it with relevant information. Its small code footprint enables this technology to be implemented into mobile devices, from ultra-mobile computers (UMPC) to regular mobile phones with camera. Snap2Play is an interactive mixed-reality mobile application. It employs Snap2Tell's Image Recognition Engine as well as multi-input modalities (i.e. GPS and accelerometer sensors) to enhance the immersive mobile application. This technology will be well placed to serve the tourism industry, where tourists can simply "snap" pictures with their camera phone and get information on various places of interest.

SUSie (Share & UnShare, it's easy) is an efficient de-centralised security key infrastructure technology that is specifically designed to enable users to share and unshare media content (e.g. pictures, video & audio) over social media sites. Sharing refers to enabling content recipients to read and store (encrypted) the media files; while unsharing refers to a complete revocation of media content – even if the recipients have downloaded a copy on their local drives.