"The SML project was started in 2004 by Gustavo Carneiro who was then a post doctoral researcher in the Vasconcelos lab. Dr. Carneiro currently works at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey. Doctoral student Antoni Chan, the second author on the paper, spent a summer at Google testing the system on a cluster of 3,000 state-of-the-art Linux machines. Chan worked under the guidance of Dr. Pedro Moreno, a Google researcher and author on the paper. The results from the Google work indicate that the system can be used on large image collections, Chan explained.

“My students go to Google and do experiments at a scale that they can’t do here. The collaboration with Google allows us to use their resources to do things we couldn’t do otherwise,” said Vasconcelos. "

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