Many people know Kosmar’s tag cloud with terms related to Web 2.0. Tag clouds are a great way to describe complex topics. Until now there was no tag cloud for Mobile 2.0. Until now! Just this morning Heike Scholz released it. Your feedback is highly appreciated!
kooaba’s innovative mobile image recognition wins with the MobileMonday Demo Night another competition.
Held in conjunction with Mobile Internet World 2008 the yearly MobileMonday Demo Night was carried out today in Munich. The challenge consists of a 5 minute live demo of the product to an audience of industry experts. From the 10 competing finalists kooaba remained as the clear winner.
The jury, consisting of experts from several companies in the mobile space, as well as the public audience chose kooaba’s demo as their clear favourite among the strong competitors. kooaba’s object recognition solution allows to link images and objects in the real world with the mobile Internet.
Dr. Herbert Bay, kooaba’s CEO: “We are delighted to have won this special competition. It confirms that we are on the right track with our innovative technology.”
kooaba’s service simplifies search in the mobile Internet: instead of tedious typing of keywords user will be able to send in images of real world objects taken with the integrated camera of the mobile phone. The object is then recognized and related digital content is returned to the user.
Billboards, images, advertising in print magazines, CD or DVD covers, paintings, buildings or products in the supermarket – real world objects turn into links to the digital world and the mobile phone fullfills the functions of a computer mouse.
Several well known brands such as Cellity, EMI Music Switzerland, EasyJet and Edipresse Groupe are already using kooaba’s innovative mobile marketing solutions.
People ask us often what mobile visual search will look like in a few months or years. The kooaba labs intend to show such visions, prototypes etc.
Today, we open the kooaba labs part of our web-site with a demonstrator on real-time object recognition. The video below shows how objects are recognized and labeled directly in a video stream from a mobile device.
(The video shows the screen of the mobile device)
For the geeks among our readers: the video is streamed to kooaba’s recognition service (via WiFi or Bluetooth), where it is matched to a database of object. The information about the recognized object is sent back to the client and displayed on the screen.
The demonstrator shown in this video was created with the help of Raphael and Benjamin, both undergrads at ETH Zurich. Thanks guys.
For further details please refer to the corresponding kooaba labs page.
The new version (1.2 Beta) of the kooaba Search client for your phone is now available for download. It offers a new, more useable interface and better stability.
The video below shows how to use the kooaba Search client to find movie trailers on youtube mobile directly from almost any recent movie poster. We currently hold tens of thousands of movie posters in our database, and Youtube recently ported most of it’s content to youtube mobile. A perfect combination.
Now, get the new client software here.
