“The Difference Is – Now The Whole World Is Paying Attention To AI,” Says Prof. Serge Belongie

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“The Difference Is – Now The Whole World Is Paying Attention To AI,” Says Prof. Serge Belongie

As we approach the 10th Annual LDV Vision Summit, we thought it fitting to pose a few burning questions to Serge Belongie, a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, the head of the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence and LDV Capital Expert in Residence. We delved into his experiences as a prominent figure in AI and sought his insights on the present landscape of visual technologies. Additionally, we explored his thoughts on the prospects available to researchers aiming to bring their work to market and impact humanity at large.

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Killing DSLR Cameras – The Final Nail in the Coffin

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Killing DSLR Cameras – The Final Nail in the Coffin

The smartphone has democratized photography. Improved camera quality is a feature that sells new smartphones. Ever since the inception of LDV Capital in 2012, Evan Nisselson was thrilled with the possibility to partner with people who would bring DSLR quality to small devices.

Earlier this year, we led the seed funding of Glass Imaging – a company on a mission to enable unrivaled professional image quality in smartphones. The team redesigns the optics that work with proprietary AI algorithms to correct the distortions & convert the sensor output to a standard image. You can now see the fantastic quality of pictures taken with the Glass Imaging prototype – it’s happening and soon this technology will fit into pocket-size devices!

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Machine Perception Will Eat the World

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Machine Perception Will Eat the World

Peter Stern, CEO of Voyant Photonics, wrote about…basically, the future of everything. See what happens when chip-scale machine perception sensors become affordable enough.

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The Cutting Edge Technologies Impacting Hollywood & the Media

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The Cutting Edge Technologies Impacting Hollywood & the Media

At our 7th annual LDV Vision Summit, we had the pleasure to host a fireside chat between Abhijay Prakash, President of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, and Evan Nisselson, LDV Capital’s Founder and General Partner. They discussed entertainment, Hollywood, and new technologies.

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Can Meta-Learning Unlock the Magic of AI?

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Can Meta-Learning Unlock the Magic of AI?

Honored to have DeepMind’s senior research scientist Dr. Jane Wang in our monthly interview series. This interview was recorded live on March 18th at our very first Women Leading Visual Tech community event. Jane spoke with Abby Hunter-Syed, Partner at LDV Capital, about how and where meta-learning will generate opportunities for business and society.

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Timnit Gebru on Algorithmic Bias & Data Mining Ethics

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Timnit Gebru on Algorithmic Bias & Data Mining Ethics

LDV Capital’s Abigail Hunter-Syed kicks off our Women Leading Visual Tech series with the interview with Timnit Gebru. Timnit holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and is currently the technical co-lead of the ethical artificial intelligence team at Google.

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Visual Technologies Are the Eyes of the Intelligent Computer

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Visual Technologies Are the Eyes of the Intelligent Computer

Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Rachel Lam, the co-founder and Managing Partner of Imagination Capital. Prior to launching Imagination Capital, Rachel founded the Time Warner Investments group in 2003 and was head of the strategic investing arm of Time Warner Inc. for 14 years.

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From Publisher of Spy Magazine to Reimagining Business Insights as Entertainment

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From Publisher of Spy Magazine to Reimagining Business Insights as Entertainment

In this article, Spy’s founding publisher Tom Phillips talks about how Section4 will take business intelligence to a whole new level. Read on to learn about his entrepreneurial journey, his tips for startup founders, why he’s excited for our LDV Vision Summit, and more.

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

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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!

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

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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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Timnit Gebru Wins 2017 ECVC: Leveraging Computer Vision to Predict Race, Education and Income via Google Streetview Image

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Timnit Gebru Wins 2017 ECVC: Leveraging Computer Vision to Predict Race, Education and Income via Google Streetview Image

Our annual LDV Vision Summit has two competitions:
1. Startup competition for promising visual technology companies with less than $2M in funding

2. Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge (ECVC) for computer vision and machine learning students, professors, experts, or enthusiasts working on a unique solution to empower businesses and humanity.

Congratulations to our 2017 LDV Vision Summit Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge Winner: Timnit Gebru.

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reCaptcha Fights Spam And Sparked The Burger vs. Sandwich Debate

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reCaptcha Fights Spam And Sparked The Burger vs. Sandwich Debate

Ying Liu is a Software Engineer at Google and was part of the team that created reCaptcha nine years ago. reCaptcha has changed a lot since then and there are some really exciting initiatives she is working on at Google that she told us about at the 3rd Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2016.

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“Killing Google With My Bare Hands” and Other Lessons Learned in Scaling with Jack Levin

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“Killing Google With My Bare Hands” and Other Lessons Learned in Scaling with Jack Levin

Jack Levin was an early employee at Google and later started ImageShack, and is most recently at Nventify. In his keynote at the 2016 Annual LDV Vision Summit, he spoke about his perspective going back to the early days of Google up to today. Tickets on sale now for the upcoming Annual LDV Vision Summit.

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An Image is Really Hundreds of Data Points That Tell Us Who We Are

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An Image is Really Hundreds of Data Points That Tell Us Who We Are

Anastasia Leng, CEO at Creative X, worked many years at Google and is a serial entrepreneur leveraging technology to better understand visual content. Inside every image lies hundreds of unique data points that provide priceless information about your audience and their revealed visual preferences. Find out how technology can unearth this data to help you make smarter creative decisions and improve your visual strategy.

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You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

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You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

Every second of every day, people around the world are publishing research papers and launching new startups that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Researchers and professors want their work to be noticed in the midst of a flood of new work. Entrepreneurs want to build valuable businesses & get covered in top-tier media.

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We're Taking Billions Of Photos A Day—Let's Use Them To Improve Our World!

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We're Taking Billions Of Photos A Day—Let's Use Them To Improve Our World!

Pete Warden went from computer vision studies at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in the United Kingdom to serial entrepreneur. After spending 3 years as co-founder and CTO, he sold Jetpac to Google. In this keynote, he shared insights about what he was working on at Google, stories about being an entrepreneur, and how analyzing images can improve the world.

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Visually Mapping The World Can Improve Our Daily Activities

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Visually Mapping The World Can Improve Our Daily Activities

This panel was a part of LDV Capital’s 2nd Annual LDV Vision Summit (May 19 & 20, 2015).

What computer vision and scaling challenges are involved in visually mapping our world in real-time? Will visual mapping improve the world we live in?

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Building The LDV Vision Summit Together - Thank you!

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"Every year the LDV Vision Summit assembles the foremost thinkers, builders, and business leaders in the visual field. It's always illuminating and inspiring." Erick Schonfeld, Executive Producer, DEMO & Co-Founder, TouchCast

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