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
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
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
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
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
To understand the role of photography today, we have to understand why we take pictures. We automatically tend to associate picture-taking as an addition to our memory function since a lot of our natural visual activity is geared towards storing information for later use. However, with the advent of digital andContinue Reading
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
Dave Krugman builds online communities. Using his talent as a photographer and his social media insight, he rallies huge amounts of followers around a particular topic or location. As you can imagine, for a brand, he is a golden child. After many successes with such prestigious clients at The Metropolitan MuseumContinue Reading
Flickr started it all. At it’s core, the simple idea of a place where people can share they favorite photographs. A lot has been written about what it could have been and missed opportunities. With 93 million users sharing 1 million photos daily, rejuvenated by a photo enthusiastic leadership andContinue Reading
Just imagine: You are at home and getting ready to head to a party. You have the perfect clothes but no shoes to match. You pick up your phone, scan your feet, select a model and after a while, you pick up your custom-made and custom fit shoes from yourContinue Reading