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Filip Victor

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Joined on July 17th, 2016

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Looks great! 👌

on Within Health

9mo ago

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@colincarrier Thanks! Definitely! We started this project very much from the computer vision angle - actually I went to CES back in jan 2017 to show off my first build to smartphone companies like Xiaomi etc. I was still running around alone showing people my little prototype then :D What was very novel about what the technology then was the real time aspect of the algorithms, i.e. everything from face detection, facial landmarks (hundreds of points on your face), and ultimate verification was all running on pretty compute constrained ARM CPUs, and locally. Local compute contrasts to something like iPhone siri, which is running on servers and doesn’t work without good internet. It also meant, that if we got it right, we will have a good technological advantage over others and it will allow me to hire my friends who also liked mobile machine learning and computer vision engineering. The entire point from the beginning was to build something that works for all the phones, in all the countries, to displace all identity verification tech in use today (credit card mag stripe, fingerprint, email+pw, signature, manual verifications for KYC, gov checks, etc.). Of course they thought that was a little too ambitious but they were very interested specifically in what we were doing on visible light (unlike iPhone X infrared) locally-computed object recognition. All the computer vision that’s running is a combination of neural networks and traditional image processing very much optimized to ARM based processors (those tiny ones that go into phones vs intel or nvidia). There's a lot of details we could get in here about the specific libraries that need to be rewritten to enable heavy computer vision on mobile sorry ramble-y answer. Thought the makers might be curious about the back story @amaury_soviche want to add something?

2yr ago

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@nico_berg thank you! Looking forward to see you guys launch on PH soon

2yr ago