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LDV Vision Summit : Computational Photography and video

Artificial Intelligence, Augmented reality, computational imaging, computer vision, Content Recognition, Facial recognition, imaging, LDV Summit, photo organizing, photo sharing, research, technology, visual recognition February 9, 2016 Paul Melcher Leave a comment

As a refresher for those who did make it and a discovery for those who couldn’t, we will be publishing a series of transcripts from last year’s LDV Vision Summit. First on our list is this conversation around computational photography and video from some of the top experts in the field: Moderator: Evan Nisselson, LDV Capital Panelists: Michael Cohen, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research *, Paul Green, CTO & Co-Founder, Algolux and Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab Evan Nisselson: I’d like to invite up our panelists—Michael…

10 questions to a founder : Yarn

content, Content Recognition, Emotion analysis, Facial recognition, imaging, interview, mobile, photo merchandise, photo organizing, photo sharing, PhotoTech, Search, Social Media, tablet, visual recognition January 26, 2016 Paul Melcher Leave a comment

With an estimated 1.2 trillion photos taken in 2015, it is no wonder that most vanish in the deep grooves of some remote hard drive. And while it takes on a few fractions of a second to capture a photo, it seems to take an eternity ( along with herculean efforts) to retrieve then. The irony of it all is that, for an instrument that should enhance our memorial faculties, it gives us a harder time trying to recall if and where we stored that…

What to watch for in 2016

Adobe, advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Brands, computational imaging, computer vision, content, Content Recognition, editing, Emotion analysis, Facebook, Facial recognition, google, imaging, in-image, Instagram, mobile, PhotoTech, research, Social Media, technology, visual recognition, wearable December 29, 2015 Paul Melcher 7 Comments

The 2015 year ends pretty much as it started. Some promises were delivered, some fell short. At least for now. With mobile continuing to dominate as the number one gateway to the online experience and visual being its strongest appeal, one would have thought that visual tech would have exploded by now. But not yet. At least not at full capacity. While image advertising has taken a foothold on all major social media site, with Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest adding a “buy” button within photos,…

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…