October 2021 Summaries

The SYNC 2021 conference, hosted by PingWest and themed on "Reshape the Future", recently concluded successfully. In the session "New Opportunities: How Asian Entrepreneurs Change the World", Charles Xie, CEO and founder of Zilliz, shared his experiences in founding Zilliz and achieving business success. Other presenters included Brad Bao, Co-founder and Chairman of Lime, Jun Pei, CEO and Co-founder of Cepton, and Lake Dai, Partner at LDV Partners Adjunct. Charles Xie is an experienced database expert who previously worked for Oracle's US headquarters before founding Zilliz, a company specializing in AI unstructured data processing and analysis systems. With $43 million financing led by Hillhouse Ventures, Zilliz set a record for the largest single Series B financing in the world of open source infrastructure software. Charles encouraged young entrepreneurs to challenge themselves and stay true to their ideas. Currently, Zilliz is developing a market and hiring talents in Silicon Valley.

The text discusses the "tip of the tongue" (TOT) phenomenon experienced while watching movies and introduces an idea to build a video content analysis engine based on Milvus. It explains how object detection, feature extraction, and vector analysis can be used in this process. Key technologies mentioned include OpenCV for frame extraction, YOLOv3 for object detection, ResNet-50 for feature extraction, and Milvus as a vector database for analyzing extracted feature vectors. The text also provides an overview of the deployment process and concludes with the benefits of using Milvus in various fields such as image processing, computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, recommender systems, and new drug discovery.