Make Smart Visuals

Digital images turn into Smart Visuals™ with kooaba's image recognition platform.
Our tools enable you to share, explore and remember things visually.

kooaba’s image recognition platform augments your digital images with related context. You snap a picture, we tell you what's in it. With this unique technology regular digital images turn into Smart Visuals. Smart Visuals™ enable you to use digital images in a whole new way. Find information about things by snapping pictures with the camera of your mobile phone. Remember pages in newspapers by snapping pictures - Smart Visuals™ provide you with the PDF and related multimedia content. Or use Smart Visuals™ to organize your photo collection automatically. These are just a few of the possibilities covered by our applications. Read more about them below:

Paperboy

Delivers digital extras for print

Share exciting articles. Explore related information. Remember good reads. All of this by snapping pictures of your favorite newspapers and magazines.

Paperboy is an application for the iPhone. Other devices and platforms are in preparation.

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kooaba Visual Search

Gives instant information on what you see

Snap pictures of objects (media covers including books, CDs, DVDs, games, and newspapers and magazines) and remember them. Consists of an iPhone application and a web-based tool, which remembers all your requests.

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Shooting Star (Beta)

Effortless photo management

Shooting Star tags your photos automatically using image recognition. Labels landmarks and places in your holiday snaps. With names, GPS location, and even related websites. Works with your favorite photo sharing platforms such as Flickr.

This product is currently in closed beta stage.

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We had to honor to be featured in several renowned media.

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For your Business

Smart Visuals™ can help your business grow and will assist you wherever you need access to the contents of digital images.

Smart Ads for Advertisers. They make regular print ads interactive.

Interactive Print for publishers. Makes your print publications interactive with Paperboy.

Technology License for your custom projects. Cloud service allows quick start without any software installation.

For Developers

You have a great idea for a new image recognition service? Do you wish you to augment the experience of your products and integrate image recognition? Use our APIs to connect to our Smart Visuals™ platform.

And don't forget to check out our labs, where we show what's possible with Smart Visuals™ today or in the near future.

Company

kooaba is a spin-off from the Computer Vision Lab at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. We believe the future of accessing, remembering and sharing information lies in visual search or image recognition. Learn more about us and how we see the future.

Events

Where you can meet us in person

Print & Media Strategie Congress, MainzSept 2010
Nokia Qt-LoungeJuly 2010
MPEG Workshop on Visual Search, GenevaJuly 2010
CVPR 2010, San FranciscoJune 2010

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