{"id":648,"date":"2006-08-19T01:07:17","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T01:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/648"},"modified":"2006-08-19T01:07:17","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T01:07:17","slug":"google-acquires-image-classification-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/648","title":{"rendered":"Google acquires image-classification company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/better-way-to-organize-photos.html\">blog post by Google&#8217;s Picasa Product Manager<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Neven Vision comes to Google with deep technology and expertise around automatically extracting information from a photo. It could be as simple as detecting whether or not a photo contains a person, or, one day, as complex as recognizing people, places, and objects. This technology just may make it a lot easier for you to organize and find the photos you care about. We don&#8217;t have any specific features to show off today, but we&#8217;re looking forward to having more to share with you soon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Neven Vision&#8217;s page now redirects to the <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/better-way-to-organize-photos.html\">Google blog post<\/a>, but a cached copy in <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050318031821\/http:\/\/www.nevenvision.com\/\">The Wayback Machine<\/a> indicates they&#8217;ve been focusing on face recognition technology of late, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2061-10812_3-6106055.html\">C|NET mentions<\/a> their <a href=\"http:\/\/66.102.7.104\/search?q=cache:CufMU29u-ZIJ:nevenvision.com\/consumer_iscout.html+iScout.&#038;hl=en&#038;gl=us&#038;ct=clnk&#038;cd=4&#038;client=firefox-a\">iScout<\/a> software for mobile phones that uses images shot with a camera phone to access additional content. (Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/battellemedia.com\/archives\/002814.php\">John Battelle&#8217;s Searchblog<\/a>, with some nice extra info at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.searchenginewatch.com\/blog\/060816-025749\">SearchEngineWatch<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/better-way-to-organize-photos.html\">blog post by Google&#8217;s Picasa Product Manager<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Neven Vision comes to Google with deep technology and expertise around automatically extracting information from a photo. It could be as simple as detecting whether or not a photo contains a person, or, one day, as complex as recognizing people, places, and objects. This technology just may make it a lot easier for you to organize and find the photos you care about. We don&#8217;t have any specific features to show off today, but we&#8217;re looking forward to having more to share with you soon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Neven Vision&#8217;s page now redirects to the <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/better-way-to-organize-photos.html\">Google blog post<\/a>, but a cached copy in <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050318031821\/http:\/\/www.nevenvision.com\/\">The Wayback Machine<\/a> indicates they&#8217;ve been focusing on face recognition technology of late, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2061-10812_3-6106055.html\">C|NET mentions<\/a> their <a href=\"http:\/\/66.102.7.104\/search?q=cache:CufMU29u-ZIJ:nevenvision.com\/consumer_iscout.html+iScout.&#038;hl=en&#038;gl=us&#038;ct=clnk&#038;cd=4&#038;client=firefox-a\">iScout<\/a> software for mobile phones that uses images shot with a camera phone to access additional content. (Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/battellemedia.com\/archives\/002814.php\">John Battelle&#8217;s Searchblog<\/a>, with some nice extra info at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.searchenginewatch.com\/blog\/060816-025749\">SearchEngineWatch<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}