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We built cities around transportation, rivers, cars, train but little did we think about the human aspect.  With 3.5 billion people living in urban areas today and expected to double by 2050, it is becoming imperative that we change. Startup Placemeter offers the ability to quantify and analyze what weContinue Reading

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We all read the stories and we have all heard the rumors. Latest, and probably most infamous is Google’s mislabelling of an African-American couple as “gorilla”. Proudly installed within mainstream services like Flickr and Google photos, visual content recognition is quickly getting a bad rep thanks to a few very publicContinue Reading

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For those who couldn’t make it, LDV has just posted videos of the panels held at its latest Vision Summit, in New York this past month of May.  Since the summit lasted 2 days this year, with over 80 international expert speakers, 40 sessions, and 2 competitions, there is aContinue Reading

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In between the real world and the digital world is Catchoom.  The 3-year-old Spanish company, born from the creative mind of Augmented Reality pioneer David Marimon, offers developers the tools to automatically link what users see to, among other things,  products they can buy online. Using advanced Image recognition andContinue Reading

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What will we do with all the data we accumulate from photos? On a daily basis, internet juggernauts like Google, Yahoo, Facebook or Microsoft use highly sophisticated deep learning engines to better understand the content of billions of images uploaded, liked and shared. For now, it is to better serve adverting but what elseContinue Reading

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There are many hackathons around the world allowing engineers to play around with API’s they might not otherwise  have access to. But none are exclusively focused on Visual Tech…until now. From the brain and hard work of Floris van Eck and Vincent Leeuw comes Hack the Visual, a 48 hours extravaganzaContinue Reading

LDV Vision Summit

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Different day, different crowd : If day 1 of the LDV Vision Summit was all about science, research and data ( massive amounts of data), Day 2 opened the doors to more practical applications of visual tech, mostly around revenue. In other words, how companies are using the discoveries of researchersContinue Reading

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Another LDV Vision Summit  just ended yesterday and with it, the conclusion of 2 full days of discussions about visual tech and its impact on our world. While it has become a cliché to point out the huge amount of photos/videos  taken, posted and shared daily, what is much lessContinue Reading

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Content recognition in images has made great thrives over the last few years and shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, as more graduate students pour out of prestigious schools across the world, the more the field is experiencing healthy competition. To add fuel, major companies like Yahoo, Google,Continue Reading