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