As day 2 of the LDV Vision Summit started, it was clear that the topics were going to be different than the previous day. Here’s a brief overview of the last day
Day 2 opened the doors to more practical applications of visual tech, mostly around revenue. In other words, how companies are using the discoveries of researchers to extract value, information and monetary rewards. As in the previous day, panels were a flowing mix of individual presentations and group discussions. Here are some elements of day 2 which particularly caught our attention
Adobe wants to be the 800 pound gorilla of mobile photo editing. Today the company released the 2-minute sneak peek video above showing off some mobile
2-minute sneak peek video above showing off some mobile retouching features its currently developing. In the clip, Photoshop product manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes shows how effortlessly photographers will be able to edit 50.3 megapixel Canon 5DS photos in the app
The LDV Vision Summit just ended yesterday and with it, the conclusion of 2 full days of discussions about visual tech and its impact on our world. Here’s a brief overview of day 1
From immersive technology cameras to face recognition activated door bells, along with apps for ordering spare parts or others for creating animated photos, it was fascinating to see how widespread visual tech is inserted. A strong reminder on how our world is expanding its use of visual information.
Flickr has caused some unexpected controversy with the auto-tagging feature it launched earlier this month. The “advanced image recognition” system has
A flurry of unhappy users have taken to forums and social media to complain that the auto tagging feature was an entrenchment to their freedom to tag as well as painfully inaccurate.
While it might still be called disrupt, it’s probably just by habit than real meaning. As we walked the aisles of TechCrunch Disrupt NY, we didn’t see, at least in photo space, a start-up that would fit this epithet. Certainly some great ideas, lots of passion, and definite sense that the space still shows a lot of potential. Disruption? well, you be the judge.…
After months of teasing and beta testing, Apple has just officially launched Photos for OS X to the general public. This is the single app that replaces
As an ultimate goal, classifying images is too limited. Myself and many in the community see the grand goal being a system that can that fully understand visual input, in the way that humans are able to. Humans don’t look at a room and think “desk”, “chair”, “coffee mug”. Instead humans understand why things are in their particular places, how a person might interact with objects or the space. We recognize peoples’ actions and their intentions, and we predict what will happen next. For example, you understand from visual input and our interactions with the world what will happen if you tip the table your coffee mug is resting on or if you try to place your coffee mug on your keyboard. Not only do I believe that we can build systems that learn these things, I believe we will be able to build systems that do this processing on video in real-time and those systems will learn from large amounts of video, without human labeling
Photos have been encaged for too long. It is time to release and use the information they all carry within: Let’s create a new photo file format that will liberate them.
Photos are too short and videos are too long. Photos say too little and videos too much. In an age where we can link data so quickly and easily, it is amazing to see that photos are still just the online equivalent of their printed version : A flat 2D representation of the offline world with a little editorial text around it. It is an aberration that in 2015, photos still need text captions to explain their content.
The project uses a database of 15 million photographs to teach computers to recognize things in pictures. After putting a monumental effort toward building and polishing the collection, Li’s team released the dataset to the world for free, and it has since become one of the industry benchmarks in how well computers can perform in recognition.
That’s it. It’s official. After months of maybes, wild rumors, executive defection, Google finally announced the splitting of Google + into independent platforms, Stream and Photos. While there might be a future for Stream, we are only interested in the development of Photos, possibly named Photo +.
Affinity Photo is a new program that was launched today by the England-based software company Serif. It’s designed to be a powerful alternative to Adobe
Affinity Photo is a new program that was launched today by the England-based software company Serif. It’s designed to be a powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop for professional photographers and retouchers who work on a Mac.
Microsoft Research has announced version 2.0 of its Image Composite Editor (ICE) software, a free program that offers advanced panoramic photo stitching
not only is Photos for Mac made to replace the two ends of Apple’s photo editing lineup—pro and consumer—it’s also built to create a more seamless workflow between your iPhone, your desktop, and your iCloud storage account
If you’re ever in a situation in which you need to understand some text in a foreign language, getting a translation is now as free and easy as loading up
The app is pretty much a 100% free version of Word Lens, an app that blew many a mind when it was launched back in 2010. You don’t even need any kind of Internet connection for it to work.
By taking a minimum of 12 seconds of video recorded by each person and running it through a computer algorithm, the researchers were able to figure out a unique “motion signature” for the filmers.
Scientists at Google Research and Stanford University have teamed up to develop an artificial intelligence program designed to automatically produce captions based on the content of the image.
A snapshot is not enough: Together, our photos can take a new dimension that companies are dying to control. Welcome to the age of the photo narrative.
Amazon is the latest internet giant to throw itself into the photo:tech space by offering Prime members free unlimited photo storage. And for a very good reason
