For many years, he has promoted speech input, stylus-based computing and, with Surface, visual recognition.
Google Glasses are already showing us ways in which visual recognition and augmented reality can be combined to provide a dizzying array of overlays and information.
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The company, which is actually a visual recognition company not an app company, has developed sophisticated facial recognition technology that analyzes features of the face and recognizes faces to a high level of accuracy.
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Antonio Criminsi of the Machine Learning and Perception group - the team which in effect invented the visual recognition system of Kinect - demonstrated how Kinect's underlying technology can be adapted for medical diagnosis.
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The control programs have been used to create control systems for a bipedal robot and a visual recognition system for a robot that works even when the machine is distracted by flashing lights and shadows.
Ideally, if you want to tap into what a consumer is doing with your brand as well as when and where they interact with it, you should embrace letting them use visual recognition in different ways.
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They let consumers snap a picture of whatever they are interested in, be it a can of Coke or a Louis Vuitton bag, with any visual recognition app on their mobile device and interact with the brand in real time.
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Solving the visual riddles involves pattern recognition skills that many people have, but that are not widely prized.
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Blinkx uses speech recognition, visual analysis and scene change detection, which enable a more accurate search as well as the ability to search within videos for specific words or people.
For those who've yet to give it a whirl, Babbel uses a mix of repetition, visual cues, spelling exercises and voice recognition, and it does a pretty stellar job of segmenting things into digestible lessons for those who only have five or ten minutes at a time to spare.
The project draws on expertise in speech recognition and in computer vision - ways of capturing visual data - which have been a strength of Cambridge and the Toshiba lab in particular.
But audio experts say that the basic principles the CIA uses are likely the same ones that have driven the field of voice recognition since the 1940s: use of a spectrogram, a visual representation of the frequencies of human speech.
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