In the Artificial Intelligence (AI) field, there are a lot of player in the game. One of which is CloudSight. With a mission to create image captioning and understanding, the company is allowing free access to its API.
This way, researchers can create their own datasets and saving any manual annotation efforts using the technology.
Its API is the image recognition used for the backend of its mobile visual search engine app, CamFind. Just like its app, it employs AI that has been trained with a dataset of 400 million images. With deep learning capabilities, it enables computers to learn over time from its mistakes by simulating certain human brain functions.
CloudSight's API analyzes images to return relevant web-based information to users. It features include internet search, related or similar image results, price comparisons and online shopping, location information, and sharing to social networks.
CloudSight is also offering academic institutions that wish to use its API, access to its unreleased features.
"Here at CloudSight, we want to encourage new developers to learn visual understanding and cognition to the best of our ability," said Brad Folkens, co-founder and CTO of CloudSight. "With this new initiative, we want educational institutions to strengthen their efforts to teach visual cognition in their classrooms and allow researchers to explore new possibilities, something that we truly believe is the future of applications and businesses.”
Achievements can be obtained by exercise with trials and errors. The importance of education is not only vital for AI as it's essential for humans. This is what CloudSight sees in the future of computer vision.
Computer-related degrees are evolving fast, and many people in schools, universities and academics tend to be a little left behind. This means students, undergraduates and postgraduates can miss some of the cutting edge trend in technology.
AI is one of the field that evolves in a quick pace. With many big tech companies doing researches to improve their machines, they're aiming to create the 'perfect' AI to aid humans. For the Los-Angeles based CloudSight, providing its API for free for those people is its way to contribute to the growing space that it is in.
What's more, it's also an opportunity to put its product straight in front of new generation of aspired computer scientists.
