As a key member of artificial intelligence technology, Shangtang Technology does not dare to slack off. Focusing on computer vision and deep learning original technology, it has become the largest new artificial intelligence company in China. He said that we have entered the era of Moore's Law of software. The software performance is rapidly growing through artificial intelligence, and artificial intelligence is used to transform traditional industries to explore the blue ocean market.
Today, the era of artificial intelligence has completely changed. The fourth industrial revolution has not really begun, and many people have already started speaking. "The world has entered an era of unpredictable prophets, which is the same as the beginning of the eight-year war of resistance in the anti-Japanese drama." Xu Li said.
As the co-founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence company Shangtang Technology, Xu Li feels the bitterness and joy of entrepreneurship, as well as the ambiguity and noisyness of the times. On the one hand, Shangtang Technology focuses on computer vision and deep learning original technology, and develops rapidly. It has independently established the original deep learning platform Parrots and deep learning super-calculation center, and has become the largest new artificial intelligence company in China with a valuation of more than 2 billion US dollars.
On the other hand, the various people from Ma Qiqi killed this field. Domestic and foreign giant companies have developed artificial intelligence, and the competition is becoming increasingly fierce. Starting in 2015, as long as there is a word of artificial intelligence in a forum topic, the field is full.
In such an environment, artificial intelligence companies such as face recognition, natural language processing, and machine deep learning have been established in the past three years. Shang Tang Technology is one of them. Founded in 2014, after three years of development, Shangtang Technology has applied a number of artificial intelligence core technologies such as face recognition, image recognition, automatic driving, human-computer interaction, medical images, and artificial intelligence chips.
In July 2017, Shangtang Technology announced the completion of the US$410 million Series B round of financing, which set a single financing record for global artificial intelligence companies at that time, and also became the world's most valued artificial intelligence unicorn company.
However, Shang Tang Technology Xu Li did not dare to slack off. After a new round of financing, he hopes to increase R&D investment and talent introduction in areas including driverless, smart medical, deep learning chips, and augmented reality platforms, open up more technical application scenarios, deepen the artificial intelligence business ecosystem, and use original technology. Empower more industries.
Video analysisIn the era of mobile Internet, everyone's mobile phone will take a lot of photos and record short videos. Yang Fan, co-founder of Shangtang Technology, noticed a phenomenon. The secondary value of these photos and videos was very small. The most important value was reflected in the moment of filming and sharing. Most people rarely read and use these again. photo. However, they occupy a large amount of mobile phone storage space. "This is very contradictory." Yang Fan said.
Based on this insight, Shangtang Technology provides a smart photo album solution for mobile phone manufacturers, which uses face recognition clustering technology to classify according to different portraits to achieve “one person, one album†and easily solve hundreds of thousands of mobile phones. A problem with photo classification management. The program can also find the child with the most photos on the mobile phone. From a high probability, “that is the user’s own child, the system will recommend the photo to the mobile phone user for screen saverâ€, and the rest of the photos can be stored in the cloud or used. Other technical processing to achieve the secondary value conversion of photos.
This is a practical application case that is not complicated. Further development, with the advancement of AI technology, Yang Fan believes that more value can be mined from photos and videos.
Some of the smart photo albums, beauty and filter functions developed by Shangtang Technology have been applied to Huawei and Xiaomi mobile phones. With this type of approach, the technology of Shangtang Technology has quietly affected many people.
On November 2nd, the newly released OPPO flagship mobile phone R11s applied the AI ​​smart beauty technology provided by Shangtang Technology and the “face recognition†face unlock function.
In general, the implementation of such applications is related to face positioning and AI effects enhancement, and the choice of algorithms is especially critical.
The technology has gone through an interesting process. Yang Fan preliminarily presets various scenes and abstracts 106 points. Initially from 5 points, 2 eyes, 1 nose, 2 mouth corners, then 21 anchor points were derived. Next is 38 points, and finally 106 points.
In theory, the more points you have, the more accurate. When operating, it is necessary to take into account the cost of manual labeling data. A 106-point labeling diagram costs 5-10 yuan. Starting with 100,000 photos, all 5 points are marked, a 5-point model is trained, and evolution is performed. The 21-point algorithm is integrated into the annotation tool, and then it can be marked faster and at lower cost.
Finally, the 106-point mark advocated by Shang Tang has been widely used. When it reaches the million-level data, it can use similar methods to mark 240 points at a lower cost.
After the similar technology matures, it opened the short video and live broadcast service channel for Shang Tang. Shang Tang is entering a positive cycle of technological advancement leading to data accumulation and industrialization.
After Shang Tang wants to solve the problem of computer recognition, he really brings video understanding into a real application scene. Now, video analytics can recognize people's identity, the surrounding tables, stools and sofas, as well as colors. There is still a great possibility of further development.
For example, search engine companies are now just text-based, and if they can understand the level of text search for the entire video, they can become video search engines in the future. Of course this is only part of the commercial imagination.
According to Xu Li and the team's vision, artificial intelligence will have an impact on the current Internet business, e-commerce, search and games. In addition, it will also empower the security, smart driving and other fields, and the future is broad.
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