Category Archives: Facial recognition

What Google’s new open source TensorFlow and Cloud Vision API mean for photo app developers

Artificial Intelligence, big data, content, Content Recognition, e-commerce, Emotion analysis, EyeEm, Facial recognition, google, mobile, PhotoTech, Social Media, technology, visual recognition December 21, 2015 Hans Hartman Leave a comment

When discussing this year’s Mobile Photo Connect “Prospering in the emerging Photos at your Fingertips” theme, several photo app developers commented along the lines of “Wouldn’t it be nice if… companies such as Google or Facebook would share their machine learning and image recognition technologies with all of us?” Few expected this was likely to ever happen, let alone within weeks after the conference. On November 9 Google announced its open source TensorFlow machine-learning framework, followed three weeks later by its Cloud Vision image recognition…

Visual recognition goes mainstream : Clarifai launches the Forevery app

computer vision, content, Content Recognition, Facial recognition, flickr, google, mobile, photo sharing, Search, Social Media, visual recognition December 9, 2015 Paul Melcher 2 Comments

When the 1,000-pound gorilla eats your lunch, you eat his breakfast: Right on the heel of Google’s opening its visual recognition API for free to anyone, Clarifai launches today a free consumers app that can store and classify photo which could very well give a run for its money to Google’s Photo app. Constructed entirely on the company’s award-winning deep learning visual recognition engine, the Forevery app might become the favorite companion of every mobile shutterbug out there. The process is simple. Import your images and…

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Google Cloud Vision API and its impact on the image recognition industry

Artificial Intelligence, computer vision, content, Content Recognition, Facial recognition, google, interview, PhotoTech, technology December 4, 2015 Paul Melcher 6 Comments

Google has recently launched its Cloud Vision API, making it easier for companies to build all sorts of applications using its image recognition. Even more, Google is offering it for free to begin with. This puts the whole image recognition industry into a different motion, and there are many other vendors that might get out of business soon. To find out more about how the image recognition industry is impacted, we interviewed Guangda Li, the Co-Founder and CTO at ViSenze, a machine intelligence company that…

There is money in your face

advertising, analytic, Brands, computer vision, content, Content Recognition, Emotion analysis, Facebook, Facial recognition, Instagram, marketing, PhotoTech, Snapchat, Social Media November 20, 2015 Paul Melcher 1 Comment

Facial recognition has been around for a while. At first and for a long time, it was only used for auto-tagging familiar faces on social media and in photo albums. Meanwhile, security agencies and law enforcement found that it could become an invaluable tool in their ongoing battle against crime fueling its development, to the dismay of civil liberties organisation. But it is not until very recently that the field has discovered that it could bring much more, in the form of hard advertising cash. Beyond…