April 04, 2019

At Facebook Camera, They Think About Delivering Value to AR Users

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At Facebook Camera, They Think About Delivering Value to AR Users

Matt Uyttendaele is the Director of Core AI at Facebook Camera. At our 2018 LDV Vision Summit, Matt spoke about enabling persistent Augmented Reality experiences across the spectrum of mobile devices. He shared how, at Facebook Camera, they are solving this and giving creators the ability to author these experiences on their platform. He showcased specific examples and highlighted future challenges and opportunities for mobile augmented reality to succeed.

March 28, 2019

Delivering AR Beyond Dancing Hotdogs

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Delivering AR Beyond Dancing Hotdogs

At the LDV Vision Summit 2018, Joshua Brustein of Bloomberg Businessweek spoke with Serge Belongie (Cornell Tech), Ryan Measel (Fantasmo), Mandy Mandelstein (Luxloop), and Jeff McConathy (6D.ai) about how the digital and physical world will converge in order to deliver the future of augmented reality.

March 20, 2019

Measuring Sleep with a Camera Makes Nanit a Powerful Tool for Research

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Measuring Sleep with a Camera Makes Nanit a Powerful Tool for Research

At our 2018 LDV Vision Summit, Assaf Glazer shared how Nanit's unique computer vision technology and the product helps children and their parents sleep better. Merging advanced computer vision with proven sleep science technologies, Nanit provides in-depth data available for helping babies, and parents, sleep well in those crucial early months and years of a baby’s development.

March 11, 2019

Partners at Glasswing, ENIAC, & OMERS Reveal Their Top Industries for Visual Tech

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Partners at Glasswing, ENIAC, & OMERS Reveal Their Top Industries for Visual Tech

At the LDV Vision Summit 2018, Sarah Fay of Glasswing Ventures, Michael Yang of Comcast Ventures (now at OMERS), and Nihal Mehta of ENIAC spoke with Jessi Hempel of Wired (now LinkedIn) about the industries they think carry the most opportunity for visual technology.

March 04, 2019

Ezra is Revolutionizing Cancer Detection with Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence

March 04, 2019/ Guest User

Ezra is Revolutionizing Cancer Detection with Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence

In this article, Emi Gal talks about how Ezra is changing the game for cancer detection through visual technology. Read on to learn about his scientific research-driven approach, the long-term possibilities for Ezra.

February 22, 2019

"Current Artificial Neural Networks Are Suboptimal," Says DeepMind Scientist

February 22, 2019/ Guest User

"Current Artificial Neural Networks Are Suboptimal," Says DeepMind Scientist

Viorica Patraucean is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. At our Vision Summit 2018, she enlightened us with her recent work on massively parallel video nets and how it’s especially relevant for real-world low-latency/low-power applications.

February 05, 2019

LDV Capital is Looking for Summer Analysts - Come Collaborate with Us!

February 05, 2019/ Guest User

LDV Capital is Looking for Summer Analysts - Come Collaborate with Us!

LDV Capital is a thesis-driven early-stage venture fund investing in people building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data.

We are looking for two entrepreneurial-minded, visual tech-savvy individuals to join our team from May-August 2019.

October 30, 2018

Rebecca Kaden of USV Discusses Trends in Visual Tech Investing

October 30, 2018/ Guest User

Rebecca Kaden of USV Discusses Trends in Visual Tech Investing

At the LDV Vision Summit 2018, Rebecca Kaden of Union Square Ventures and Evan Nisselson of LDV Capital discussed the greatest challenges they have seen their portfolio companies endure and how strategic team building is critical to success at the earliest stages of company building.

June 01, 2018

Thank You for Making Our 5th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Success!

June 01, 2018/ Guest User

Thank You for Making Our 5th Annual LDV Vision Summit a Success!

Our fifth annual LDV Vision Summit was fantastic, a giant thank you to everyone who came and participated in making it another spectacular gathering.

We couldn’t do it without you, YOU are why our annual LDV Vision Summit is special and a success every year. Thank you!

May 16, 2018

An Academic Budget Inspired Raquel Urtasun to Design Affordable Solutions for Self-Driving

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An Academic Budget Inspired Raquel Urtasun to Design Affordable Solutions for Self-Driving

Raquel Urtasun is a recipient of the NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Award, three Google Faculty Research Awards, and several more. She lectures at the University of Toronto and the Vector Institute and is the head of Uber ATG, Toronto. At our LDV Vision Summit 2017, she spoke about how autonomous vehicles with human perception will make our cities smarter and better to live in.

April 04, 2018

Facebook is building a visual cortex to better understand content and people

April 04, 2018/ Guest User

Facebook is building a visual cortex to better understand content and people

Manohar Paluri is the Manager of the Computer Vision Group at Facebook. At our LDV Vision Summit 2017, he spoke about how the Applied Machine Learning organization at Facebook is working to understand the billions of media content uploaded every day to Facebook in order to improve people’s experiences on the platform and connect them to the right content.

March 20, 2018

You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

March 20, 2018/ Guest User

You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

We have been organizing the premier annual visual technology summit since 2014 called the LDV Vision Summit with the main focus of showcasing brilliant people like YOU!

March 07, 2018

Hired at Facebook After Showcasing Research in Visual Technology at the LDV Vision Summit: An interview with Divyaa Ravichandran

March 07, 2018/ Guest User

Hired at Facebook After Showcasing Research in Visual Technology at the LDV Vision Summit: An interview with Divyaa Ravichandran

Divyaa Ravichandran was a finalist in the 2016 Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge (ECVC) at the LDV Vision Summit. Her project, “Love & Vision” used siamese neural networks to predict kinship between pairs of facial images. It was a major success with the judges and the audience.

March 05, 2018

AutoX is Democratizing Autonomous Driving with a Camera-First Solution

March 05, 2018/ Guest User

AutoX is Democratizing Autonomous Driving with a Camera-First Solution

Leaving his role as founding director of Princeton's Computer Vision and Robotics Lab, Jianxiong Xiao (Professor X) founded AutoX. He spoke at our LDV Vision Summit 2017 about how he is working to lower the price of entry into the autonomous driving field with an innovative camera-first solution.

February 22, 2018

Josh Kopelman Looks to Find the "Investable Window" on New Technologies

February 22, 2018/ Guest User

Josh Kopelman Looks to Find the "Investable Window" on New Technologies

At the LDV Vision Summit 2017, Evan Nisselson had the privilege to sit down with Josh Kopelman, the self-described "accidental VC" and Partner at First Round Capital, to discuss investment trends and what Josh looks for in a founder at the seed-stage level.

February 12, 2018

Hearst, AlphaPrime, ENIAC and Samsung Next Talk Opportunities in Visual Tech Investing

February 12, 2018/ Guest User

Hearst, AlphaPrime, ENIAC and Samsung Next Talk Opportunities in Visual Tech Investing

At the LDV Vision Summit 2017, Erin Griffith of Fortune spoke with Vic Singh of ENIAC Ventures, Claudia Iannazzo from AlphaPrime Ventures, Scott English of Hearst Ventures, and Emily Becher from Samsung Next Start about trends and opportunities in visual technology investing.

February 01, 2018

LDV Capital Raises $10M Second Seed Fund for Visual Technologies

February 01, 2018/ Guest User

LDV Capital Raises $10M Second Seed Fund for Visual Technologies

We are very excited to announce the close of our second fund for investing in people building visual technology businesses at the pre-seed or seed stage. You can read more about it on the Wall Street Journal.

January 29, 2018

Building an MRI Scanner 60 Times Cheaper, Small Enough to Fit in an Ambulance

January 29, 2018/ Guest User

Building an MRI Scanner 60 Times Cheaper, Small Enough to Fit in an Ambulance

Matthew Rosen is a Harvard Professor, he and his colleagues at the MGH/A.A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in Boston are working on applications of advanced biomedical imaging technologies. At the LDV Vision Summit 2017, he spoke about how he is hacking a new kind of MRI scanner that’s fast, small, and cheap.

January 25, 2018

JW Player, VH1 and Tout Discuss What's On TV Now

January 25, 2018/ Guest User

JW Player, VH1 and Tout Discuss What's On TV Now

At the LDV Vision Summit 2017, Rebecca Paoletti of Cake Works spoke with Brian Rifkin of JW Player, Michael Downing of Tout, and Orlando Lima from Viacom/VH1 about how traditional TV broadcasters are becoming digital while digital platforms are investing in traditional television models and programming.

Listen to their thoughts on creating valuable branded content, applying machine learning, and much more.

January 11, 2018

How Professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman Built Dreambit & Sold it to Facebook

January 11, 2018/ Guest User

How Professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman Built Dreambit & Sold it to Facebook

Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is a professor at the University of Washington and a Research Scientist at Facebook. At our LDV Vision Summit 2017, she spoke about how and why she evolved her research into a company called Dreambit which she then sold to Facebook.

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