Gardin Enables Producers to Grow More Nutritional Food While Lowering Production Costs

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Gardin Enables Producers to Grow More Nutritional Food While Lowering Production Costs

“If the purpose of food is to provide us with nutrition, then shouldn't that be what we're measuring?”.

Sumanta Talukdar, founder and CEO of Gardin, gave a keynote speech at our 7th LDV Vision Summit. Tune in to watch the video or read the transcript and learn how the company leverages a combination of multispectral sensing, data fusion, computer vision, and machine learning to improve food production.

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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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Michal Lipson on Silicon Photonics and Its Ability to Enable AI in Our Life

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Michal Lipson on Silicon Photonics and Its Ability to Enable AI in Our Life

Our second interview in Women Leading Visual Tech series is with Dr. Michal Lipson.
Michal is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University and a member of the National Academy of Science. Her research work is focused on nanophotonics.

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Sea Machines Analyzes Diverse Visual Data To Deliver Safe Autonomous Boats

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Sea Machines Analyzes Diverse Visual Data To Deliver Safe Autonomous Boats

Fiona Hua talks about leading the perception team at Boston-based Sea Machines, one of our portfolio companies. Read on to learn about her journey from biometrics to autonomous vessels, how Sea Machines differentiates itself in the market, and more.

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Visual Technologies are Progressing Rapidly as Computing Power Grows

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Visual Technologies are Progressing Rapidly as Computing Power Grows

Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviews Laura Smoliar about her experience investing in visual tech. Laura is a Founding Partner at The Berkeley Catalyst Fund where she focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage companies in biopharma, agriculture, medical device, clean air, clean water, energy storage, and sensors.

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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.

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

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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.

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AutoX is Democratizing Autonomous Driving with a Camera-First Solution

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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.

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Sturfree Launching Augmented Reality Gaming App with Investor They Met at LDV Vision Summit

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Sturfree Launching Augmented Reality Gaming App with Investor They Met at LDV Vision Summit

Anil Cheriyadat, Founder and CEO of Sturfree was a finalist in the ECVC at the 2015 annual LDV Vision Summit. Sturfree technology use mobile cameras to recognize the real world around you then augment it for travel, gaming, entertainment etc. We caught up with Anil as Sturfree prepares to launch its Augmented Reality social application.

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