Category Archives: Augmented reality

Move over Snap: Facebook is the camera company to beat

Adobe, Augmented reality, computer vision, content, Content Recognition, Facial recognition, mobile, Mobile Photo Connect, Snapchat, Social Media, visual recognition, wearable April 25, 2017 Hans Hartman Leave a comment

It’s the platform, stupid Just as the world finally figured out why Snap relabeled itself as a camera company, last week Facebook proclaimed it’s not just a camera company, it’s a camera company built on the world’s ambitious augmented reality platform. Let’s add some perspectives to their F8 announcements: Recently, Facebook has put its camera front and center in its various properties (not just Instagram, but also Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp). For instance, in Messenger, this changed the traditional texting workflow, which normally starts with…

LDV Vision Summit : 10 Questions for a Research Scientist @ Google

Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, computer vision, Content Recognition, Facial recognition, interview, LDV Summit, photo organizing, research, visual recognition April 20, 2017 Paul Melcher Leave a comment

From automatically organizing personal photos, monitoring crops, medical diagnostic, driving cars, security monitoring, computer vision is always everywhere. Not surprising since we, as human beings, use vision as our primary tool to understand the world around us. For a search engine like Google, it does make perfect sense to be one of the leaders in research. Ahead of her keynote address at the upcoming 2017 LDV Vision Summit, we spoke with Google Research Scientist Tali Dekel to learn more: A little bit about you. what is…

LDV Vision Summit 17 : 10 questions to a visual search expert at Pinterest

analytic, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, content, Content Recognition, e-commerce, interview, LDV Summit, photo organizing, PhotoTech, Pinterest, Social Media, technology, UGC, visual recognition April 12, 2017 Paul Melcher Leave a comment

[It’s Spring and the LDV Vision Summit is coming back. Like every year since its inception, we are proud to feature some of the prestigious speakers and judges who will take the stage during the two-day event. Here is the first of the series] With appetite for visual content showing no signs of taming down and users wanting to do more than just look at pictures, platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and others have been in a close race to outbid each other with new…

You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, computational imaging, computer vision, Content Recognition, Emotion analysis, Facial recognition, imaging, investment, LDV Summit, mobile, photo organizing, photo sharing, PhotoTech, research, study, technology, thermal, UGC, visual recognition March 1, 2017 Evan Nisselson Leave a comment

Every second of every day, people around the world are publishing research papers and launching new startups that leverage computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Researchers and professors want their work to be noticed in the midst of a flood of new work. Entrepreneurs want to build valuable businesses, get covered in Techcrunch, Wired, Wall Street Journal, want to raise financing and want happy customers. We want to help you! We have been organizing the premier annual visual technology summit since 2014 called the…

From Artificial Intelligence to Intelligent Imaging

Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, content, Content Recognition, Facial recognition, imaging, mobile, Mobile Photo Connect, phablet, photo merchandise, photo sharing, PhotoTech, Snapchat, Social Media, tablet, visual recognition February 8, 2017 Hans Hartman Leave a comment

Last year at Mobile World Congress I expected the buzz to be about smartphone innovations. Instead, what most people talked about was IoT, the Internet of Things. My highlight was brushing my teeth with the Oral-B Genius smart toothbrush at one of several sinks lined up in the company’s booth. The idea was: you plop your smartphone onto the mirror with a provided suction cup and the toothbrush’s position detection technology uses your smartphone’s camera as well as the brush’s motion sensors to track how…

Freeing images from the page paradigm will change – yes – everything

3D, Augmented reality, content, Interface, mobile, Mobile Photo Connect, news, technology, UGC, VR, wearable September 29, 2016 Hans Hartman Leave a comment

We’ve all witnessed a scene like this: a toddler inspects a magazine and taps the paper, expecting to see a larger version of her favorite photo appear, just as it does on her smartphone. Soon, she’ll also expect the ability to navigate that photo – or video – from all angles, whether by tilting her viewing device or using a convenient headset that will also allow her to see it in 3D. Images are escaping the constraints of the page – whether physical or virtual…

LDV Vision Summit : A recap

advertising, analytic, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, big data, Brands, computational imaging, computer vision, Content Recognition, Emotion analysis, Facebook, Facial recognition, in-image, LDV Summit, Marketplace, mobile, photo organizing, PhotoTech, Social Media, study, technology, thermal, UGC, visual recognition May 27, 2016 Paul Melcher Leave a comment

Tell me something I don’t know. Every year, this is the challenge raised by the LDV Vision Summit in front of an audience made of experts in their fields, scientists, researchers, founders, CEO’s, investors and pundits. And every year, the same reaction: Wow, I didn’t know that. The 2016 edition, which just closed a few days ago, did not disappoint. In a field where breakthroughs are seemingly far between, there is still room for anyone to discover research, studies, applications or companies that reveal yet another…

It’s coming! The Internet of Eyes will allow objects to see

Augmented reality, computer vision, content, Content Recognition, Emotion analysis, imaging, Interface, LDV Summit, research, Social Media, thermal, visual recognition May 22, 2016 Evan Nisselson Leave a comment

In the near future, every inanimate object we interact with may not only have the ability to see, but could also improve our lives. In order for this visibility to happen, objects will need the assistance of visual sensors and cameras. Though hotly debated in privacy sectors, experts agree that dozens of tiny cameras and eventually nano cameras will soon be built into objects, providing devices the ability to see from every angle and in real time. As Serge Belongie, Professor of Computer Vision at…

10 Questions for a CMO: FLIR

Augmented reality, computational imaging, computer vision, Content Recognition, imaging, interview, LDV Summit, technology, thermal May 17, 2016 Paul Melcher Leave a comment

There is more to the world around us than we can see. Much more. While we compensate for that lack of vision with our other senses, like touch or smell, machines do have this luxury. Thermal sensors, who can capture and render heat signatures, fill in this void and combined with advance imaging, deliver far deeper insight on our environment, even to humans. We caught up with Travis Merill, CMO of FLIR, a global leader in thermal imaging, who reveals how critical this technology has…

The Camera of the Future = No Camera

analytic, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, computational imaging, computer vision, content, Content Recognition, Emotion analysis, Facial recognition, Interface, mobile, PhotoTech, research, technology, visual recognition, wearable April 19, 2016 Donna Romer Leave a comment

For thousands of years humans have engaged in making visual records of the world around them. From the earliest Ice Age animal cave paintings to birthday photos of our children, a common value seems to be expressing itself through our ever evolving technologies and skills that create “visual likeness.” Charcoal, ink, dye, pigments — these were the earliest materials. But it was the technological innovation of the camera and light-sensitive materials over 170 years ago that truly changed the game and the trajectory. Consumer digital imaging sensors are…