The fashion visual search category has added a new player with the international launch of Shnap. Based in Australia, its executives liken their product to the “Shazaam of shopping.” It uses mobile apps or a browser extension to give consumers the ability to shop apparel...
Retailers are rolling out new ways for consumers to look for items online. Forever 21, in particular, is moving beyond text-based online search for its customers with visual search. In an announcement for the feature, Forever 21 President Alex Ok said the technology “bridges the...
Timing is everything, as the saying goes. It’s also the story of a startup named Poly, and its visual identification software, says its CEO, Alberto Rizzoli. Two years ago, Rizzoli began developing an AI platform capable of seeing an object – or person – and “visually” identifying it, with a high...
In eCommerce news, while social media sites like Instagram and Tumblr feature a myriad of ways to enhance people’s wardrobes by suggesting new clothing pieces to add, Pinterest has a new upgraded take to its image recognition tool, Lens. Through its new and improved Pinterest Lens...
July 20, 2020
The fashion visual search category has added a new player with the international launch of Shnap. Based in Australia, its executives liken their product to the “Shazaam of shopping.” It uses mobile apps or a browser extension to give consumers the ability to shop apparel by taking a photo and then automatically finding a source […]
December 01, 2017
Timing is everything, as the saying goes. It’s also the story of a startup named Poly, and its visual identification software, says its CEO, Alberto Rizzoli. Two years ago, Rizzoli began developing an AI...
January 26, 2017
Industries around the world have caught AI fever. Developers around the world have made more ways than ever for the technology to automate, optimize and enable different services. Facebook, Alphabet,...
August 25, 2023
Alibaba Cloud has unveiled two open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models that have the ability to understand both images and text. These models — Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat — were trained on Alibaba Cloud’s large language model Qwen-7B and offer improved image recognition and understanding performance compared to other open-source large vision language models, the cloud computing company […]
February 09, 2017
Facebook stock (FB) was trending upward in midweek trading, with mid-day values on Wednesday (Feb. 8) rising 1.68 percent from the previous day’s close, up to $134.06. Though the numbers...
September 03, 2014
Europe’s biggest online fashion retailer is testing a mobile-app feature that will let users snap a picture and then get recommendations for similar clothing, according to the Wall Street Journal....
