Congratulations to the launch today @plakaatapp@derAlekx@Freebian! 👏🍻🎉 I like the concept. What's your long term vision for this? You didn't wrote a image recognition algorithm for it, right? I guess you do it the dirty MVP way and collect the data manually all by yourself?
@sammyschuckert First of all, thanks for the submission. We really appreciate it!
Our vision is to recognise all printed products such as posters, billboards, flyer or magazine pages. We want to enrich these print products with relevant information and respective actions such as buying tickets, ordering products, etc. We think of it as the Shazam for the print world.
Right now we focus on the colourful world of posters. Why? Because we love urban culture and artful design and think that posters are a significant expression of this part of city life.
We already developed an algorithm which aims at recognising each and every poster in the long run. For this goal we use different technologies such as image recognition and OCR and try to extract information from different sources.
Right now we are at the beginning of our journey. In case the algorithm doesn’t t get a concludent result we indeed do provide manually added information. We also use this approach to better understand the needs and goals of our users.
Lito
SSML Editor
