They use photos to tell stories, a built-in opportunity for the next wave of adtech startups around brand recognition in images, and are highly influenced by their built-in trust for the opinions of their peers.

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GazeMetrix - The company monitors images in social media (currently focusing on Instagram) and uses image recognition technology to find brands appearing in images.

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They fed the pictures into an off-the-shelf face-recognition programme that compared them with 280, 000 images they had found by using a search engine to identify Facebook profiles from the same city.

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Last June, a Google deep-learning system that had been shown 10 million images from YouTube videos proved almost twice as good as any previous image recognition effort at identifying objects such as cats.

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When using Smart Photo Selector, V2 users can capture up to 20 shots with a single press of the shutter button, and the camera will then automatically select the five best images to keep based on factors such as exposure, focus and facial recognition.

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Emerging from a highly scientific background, the company first applied its image recognition technology to online retailers or businesses who wanted to remove pornographic images from their websites.

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