April 17 2008 / by Accel Rose Category: Technology Year: 2008 Rating: 4 Hot
A new consumer-ready system called ViPR , by Evolution Robotics ,
lets machines – from your cell phone to robots – recognize objects.
Already, this software permits consumers to snap photographs, then
to search for image matches, returning relevant image and text
results. In other words, you can take photos of product packaging,
movie art, billboards, etc and instantly get more information
related to the image you have just captured.
Take a look at this demo to see for yourself:
Eventually, such systems will be essential for robots and other
systems that either need to navigate a complex environment or serve
to input and index information.
In the near term it will be interesting to see how software like
ViPR will function in concert with the new image barcodes being
used on billboards in Japan and
in newspapers by Google. Once optimized, such systems will
undoubtedly lead to consumer efficiencies and new behaviors.
