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image recognition

 

Image recognition is a Computer Vision technology that makes it possible to analyze the resemblance between two pictures (or the objects pictured in them).

 

This technology is also the foundation of the mechanics of marker recognition used by Pikkart’s Augmented Reality apps.

 

Applications

Computer Vision can be used for:
 
Content-based image retrieval: image search based on visually similar images

 

Logo recognition: recognizing company logos in pictures and videos

 

Place recognition: using the camera of a mobile device to recognize a place
 

 

 

This technology can be applied to many fields:

 

 

 
Marketing and events: brand/logo recognition
Museums: image/artwork recognition

 

Advertising: flyer and poster recognition
Tourism: building and landmark recognition

 

Videogames: playing card recognition

 

Benefits

Image recognition opens up new possibilities on mobile and industrial applications.

 

Algorithms being able to automatically recognize objects and places creates new opportunities for the creation of Intelligent Applications that can entertain, inform, and help users through natural interactions.

Know-how

Pikkart’s image recognition system is used in our Cloud Recognition System (CRS) to perform fast image searchs in a dataset of hundreds of thousands of pictures. When a user frames a marker with their camera, the image is sent to cloud servers that, using advanced Computer Vision algorithms, find the matching image (if it exists) in less than one second.

Pikkart CRS can also be integrated in existing server installations in order to have a customized and independent service of image recognition.

When is cloud image recognition useful?

When your application requires a dynamic dataset: the cloud image recognition system can be configured via our CMS to instantly change which markers are available for recognition, thus changing the behavior of the application on the client side in a transparent way for the final user. 
When you have huge databases of images: the cloud image recognition system is scalable to hundreds of thousands of images, removing the limitations of mobile devices in terms of memory and computational power.  

 

Why choose Pikkart?

 

Relevant publications

“Segmentation models diversity for object proposals”, Manfredi et al., Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2016

 

“GOLD: Gaussians of Local Descriptors for image representation”, Serra et al., Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2015

 

 

 

 

Last update:  22/03/2018