ReadWriteWeb will be reporting from the 15th Stanford Accel Symposium on February 25th. Hosted by Accel (the VC firm that funded Facebook, Etsy, and dozens of other companies we write about here) and Media X at Stanford, the event boasts some big name speakers, such as the CEOs of eBay and WPP.

Who Will Speak?

The keynote talks will be delivered by:

• John Donahoe, CEO, eBay Inc.
• Sir Martin Sorrell, Chairman and CEO, WPP

The speakers and panelists include:

• Jeremy Allaire, CEO and Founder, Brightcove, Inc.
• Adam Bain, President of Audience Network, Fox
• Jim Bankoff, CEO, SB Nation
• Matthew Barzun, National Finance Team for Barack Obama and former Chief Strategy Officer, CNET Networks, Inc
• John Battelle, Chairman and CEO, Federated Media
• Rob Bearden, former President, Jboss; President, Springsource
• Dave Berman, President of Worldwide Sales and Service, WebEx
• Tim Cadogan, CEO, OpenX
• Duke Chung, CEO, Parature
• Scott Dietzen, SVP of Communications and Products, Yahoo!
• Curt Hecht, President, Vivaki Nerve Center
• Chris Hughes, Facebook, and Architect of Obama's Digital Campaign Strategies
• Bob Muglia, President Server and Tools Business, Microsoft Corp.
• Raghu Ramakrishnan, Chief Scientist for Audience and Research Fellow at Yahoo, Inc.
• Mark Read, Strategy Director, WPP
• Mike Schroepfer, VP Engineering, Facebook
• Quincy Smith, CEO, CBS Interactive
• David Thompspn, CEO, Genius Inc., former CMO, WebEx
• Jayshree Ullal, President and CEO, Arista Networks
• Zack Urlocker, VP of Products, Sun Microsystems
• Maynard Webb, CEO, LiveOps; former COO, eBay, Inc.
• Jeff Weiner, President, LinkedIn; former EIR, Accel Partners

What Will They Talk About?

Here are just some of the topics these big names will cover:

1. The Obama Administration's Impact on Innovation Sectors
2. Digital Media Advertiser and Technology Priorities in a Downsizing World
3. Trends in Data Center Infrastructure and Cloud Computing
4. Will the Recession Strengthen Open Source or Destroy Profitability?
5. SaaS Crossing the Chasm: Are We There Yet?

What Questions Would You Ask if You Were There?

Tell us in the comments. We will select the best questions and ask them at the conference and then report on the answers. Please be specific: ask a question that relates to one of the above topics; if you want, choose which panelist you would like us to direct your question to.

A group of Stanford University researchers specializing in artificial intelligence, Saxena and Siddharth Batra, and Assistant Professor Andrew Ng, created this new technology they're calling ZunaVision. The embedding technology is driven by an algorithm that first analyzes the video while paying close attention to the section of the scene where the image or video will be embedded. It then subtly alters the color, texture, and lighting of the embedded object to better fit it in with the surroundings. As other objects pass in front of the embed, it disappears from view and as the camera pans and zooms, the algorithm shape-shifts the object accordingly. The appropriate shadows are also added for a more realistic feel. The end result is an embed that looks as if it was there all along, instead of being some obvious insert or overlay that is clearly not a part of the scene.

This type of technology is nothing new to the big Hollywood studios - they've been using similar methods for years in order to do special effects. Until now, however, there hasn't been a way for people to perform these kinds of advanced video edits without investing serious money into professional video editing software. But with ZunaVision , anyone and everyone can accomplish this same task in minutes, with only a click of the mouse.

Revolutionizing Video Ads?

Videographers are already thinking of creative and imaginative ways to use this technology to liven up their videos and amateur films, but the real financial potential of ZunaVision lies in advertising. With ZunaVision, anyone with a video camera could potentially earn money by agreeing to place corporate logos or ads within their videos before uploading them to the internet. That could be a hugely successful venture if the technology was adopted by Google, for example, to become the "AdSense for Video" and integrated with their video-sharing site YouTube.

At the moment, YouTube is experimenting with different methods of monetization, including overlay ads on embeds, post-roll ads, and allowing publishers to bid for sponsored placement of their videos on the site. These methodologies are still too new to provide any conclusive data as to their success just yet. ZunaVision seems to be just as promising, if not more so, than any of these current experiments.

The ZunaVision site features several example of these in-video embeds, which you can see here - there are well over a hundred examples of both user-gen videos and clips from TV and film that demonstrate the technology's potential.

You can sign up and try ZunaVision for yourself by clicking here.

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