PicScout a startup that produces image tracking technology for stock photography agencies, professional photographers and others is adding the CEO of Creative Commons, Joi Ito, to its board of advisors.
PicScout originally started off as a content copyright enforcer, hunting down unlicensed images on the web with its flagship ImageIRC technology. The company also launched PicApp, a flash-based image provider that offers legally licensed images from large databases for free. The company makes money by including ads as part of the embedded picture viewer.
Ito said that PicScout is bringing sensibility to the image sharing economy by bringing the commercial world and open world together to drive awareness around licensing power for images.
Ito’s role as advisor makes sense considering PicScout’s efforts to license images legally. PicScout recently launched a browser plug-in called ImageExchange that identifies photos that have been fingerprinted within its image tracking and credit technology that identifies images. The add-on will track microstock images, right-managed images, royalty-free and UGC images.
So when you search Google, Flickr, the web and more, IRC can provide you with image credit information when applicable. Image IRC provides a way to support the efforts of Creative Commons licenses and RDFa by validating, fixing and filling in missing metadata on all images online. PicScout claims that tens of millions of images have already been identified.
This is another company that is either going to be acquired fast or that could become as relevant as YouTube….Remember Google Goggles, they need this technology, Remember how many pictures you are taking…YOU need this technology too. YOU will take more and more pictures and when you have 1400 pictures from your trip or other event, you will need some automated way to tag them.
No one needs their technology, and they will never become as relevant as YouTube (seriously?) .
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More (not free)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?query1=image+hashing&scope1=metadata&op1=and&query2=&scope2=metadata&op2=and&query3=&scope3=metadata&queryText=+%28%28image+hashing%29%3Cin%3Emetadata+%29+&history=yes&reqloc=basic&queryblock=&submit=Run+Search&srchlist=publist&coll1=ieeejrns&coll2=ieejrns&coll9=aip&coll3=ieeecnfs&coll4=ieecnfs&coll5=ieeestds&coll6=preprint&coll7=books&coll8=modules&std_status=all&currweek=01-Dec-2009&srchyr=allyr&py1=1950&py2=2009&disp=cit&maxdoc=100&ResultCount=25&SortField=Score&SortOrder=desc
Google launch yesterday of their visual search showed us that they have already implemented image recognition that is much more complex than this.
These guys can keep on selling flash ads
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no body cares for image recognition companies
Good news – I look forwards to seeing how PicScout develops
Mr. Ito’s involvement bodes well for this Company. A first-class act.
I thought Leena left TC
Its a big coup for the company to get Joi onboard–he has his work cut out for him.
Goggles’ image recognition is far beyond what these guys can do so far. Naven is a maverick! Wait till 2nd quarter for some new enhancements.
Can anyone help? I need to know how to find some code that will automatically recognise a number plate on an image (the cars are not all photographed in the same position), and then remove the number plate from the image. can anyone point me in the right direction – i’ve spent the last two hours looking and can’t find a simple solution.