The visual web is here. People discover, share and buy based on what they see online. Photo are fast becoming the number one way people connect with brands. An evolution smart companies like Nike and Red Bull have fast understood, pouring millions into photography. But thanks to a variety ofContinue Reading
:O By announcing the separation of Google photo from the Google plus social media platform, the giant search company has clearly announced its intention to intensify the battle for domination of the online photo space. And for a good reason: Photos are the number one activity on smart phones, second onContinue Reading
Flickr’s recent announcement that it will offer licensing tools to its user base should come as no surprise to the readers to Kaptur. We predicted such a move a while back. At a time when more and more photo tech companies are putting their content for licensing, from 500px to EyeEmContinue Reading
There is no end in how many photos we produce. In fact, all the projections show that we have only just started and that the 880 billion photos we will take in 2014 are nothing compare to what is to come. But who organises all these images? Enter Euvision Technologies , fromContinue Reading
We receive a lot of notifications of new photo apps here as well as we scout the internet for news of start-ups with a photographic touch to them. Every time, after testing it, we ask the same question: is it good enough to make people leave Instagram and use thisContinue Reading
The next big frontier for anyone involved with photography online is content curation. The value of a company dealing with photography is not in its ability to attract a large amount of content – that is the easy part- but rather in its ability to create value to the contentContinue Reading
Let’s be honest, Amazon is not interested in selling phones. Instead, they want you to carry a device that is a constant and direct connection to its store. See, one of Amazon’s issue is that more and more purchases are mobile and as good as their apps might be, theyContinue Reading
Like during any great summit, there was a lot of valuable information to take in during the LDV Vision Summit. Here are some noteworthy quotes to remember for those who were there and those who weren’t : “Big players will struggle to keep up in some fields as technologyContinue Reading
Crowdsourced content is only as good as the ability to curate it. Mapillary does exactly that by using computer vision to understand the relationships between two images and stitching them together automatically. Using GPS information, it is building the largest user-generated photographic map of the world. We caught up with co-founderContinue Reading
We caught up with Serge Belongie, co-organizer and judge for the upcoming Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenges, part of the LDV Vision Summit, to learn more about him, the competition and computer vision. – First, a little bit about you. What is your background ? I’m currently a professor of Computer Science at CornellContinue Reading