I guess the main reasons for most of the above negative comments is because the video is “not” spoken in an American accent and the photos are also not all American…

Add another video with these corrections and I bet there will be tons of positive comments!!

@Naveen – when you said 40 times faster – i hope you meant all the companies you are referring – right !

Classifiers like beach are quiet easy to write and implement – lets talk about something like a crowded market or a park [not jungle] – I hope you can add your $0.20 on the same.

We too are a company in the same domain and have been recently incubated by IIM Ahmedabad business incubator. [ Visit http;//www. picporta.com ]

We to have classifiers from beach to automobiles and currently working.We too offer search time less than 10 msec.

Keep me posted on your findings

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Pulkit Gaur
Founder and CTO
Picporta Pvt. Ltd.

I actually have used MatLab quite a bit lately in the last few months. Performing functionally-identical operations, such as something simple like cellular automata, with Matlab and C side-by-side, had totally different processing times. Obviously Matlab has its uses, like crude prototyping. All I did was question the use of it for something that’s already getting this sort of media coverage. Obviously you had to have had something else, other than your basic MatLab implementation, in order to come up with the 20ms figure from the article? The returned images from the query in your demo came up at a speed of about one per second—which I wouldn’t qualify as FAST, or compare to the 20ms figure mentioned in the article.

Don’t take TechCrunch comments personally. For me, reading the audacious claims of it being lightning-fast, and then seeing the demo video using MatLab, just seemed overly contradicting.

(ps. Also, I’d venture to say that no one here really gets how a magical numerical “threshold” defines “beach” or “dog”.)

Thanks for your comments above. But no mention of your IP position? Curious…

- Of course the technology works, or we wouldn’t have started the company. In general, if you think that this cannot be done, then you are completely clueless: object classifiers have been made for more than 10 years now at leading CS labs around the world. Our secret sauce is not that we can make them, but that we can deploy them quickly, and make them work FAST (30-40 times faster than our competition).

- In the response to the matlab question above, yes, the demo on the website uses matlab. That is where we develop classifiers, before we deploy them on (much) faster C based systems. But if you think matlab is somehow inferior, then you probably haven’t used it since school. We could deploy everything in matlab and still crush the competition, both in terms of speed and accuracy. Matlab has come a long way in the last 10 years!

- The interesting point raised above is by the Y C Wee, who wondered if it will work as advertised in a live environment — that is indeed the true test of our mettle!

- There were 800 companies reviewed for the AlwaysOn Top 100 list, 350 shortlisted, and 100 selected. We were a winner in the “Technology Enablers” category. Do your own research.

Onward and upward!

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog …

And they were on the list …

Demo Service was online last week but is no offline … wonder why ???

Congrats on the big onmedia win!

That technology would potentially be able to rake in billions of dollars of profit for its use..

Ahh, I really don’t know what to say to that… do any of you?

Also, can they find images on other traits (e.g. location, type) using filenames and tags?)

Say I want to find travel related pictures of Miami that have the beach in them. Do they have the ability to do this? Also can I just specify tags that I want (e.g. beach, landmark, scenic shot) or do I have to upload an image for them to find similar ones to?

They have a carefully crafted data set in their demo.

Apparently if the name ends in bra, you have to use the round-end font… like zimbra
http://www.zimbra.com/

that is what a layperson says thinking they are clever. Substitute sport for porn and realise what an idiot statement it is.

call me back when it can detect double ended figging amateur bukkake dogging and I have a multi-billion dollar market for it

(look up figging and tell me how it can detect that)