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.
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.
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.
Buzz
We had to honor to be featured in several renowned media.
"Cool visual recognition app"
"Mit dem Flugzeug
auf den Mond fliegen"
"One of the world's
top 100 startups"
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, Mainz | Sept 2010 |
| Nokia Qt-Lounge | July 2010 |
| MPEG Workshop on Visual Search, Geneva | July 2010 |
| CVPR 2010, San Francisco | June 2010 |
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