IDCEE 2013: A true story of Viewdle - Yegor Anchishkin (CTO @ Viewdle 2006-2012) and Laurent Gil...

Our story

Viewdle

How it all started…

Machine vision

Using face recognition for indexing images and videos

We changed 3 times

the business plan

1st attempt:

Cloud / Video

… indexing videos on facebook

Series A!

Hello to California

But…

Who take videos?

2008

… how about photos?

Second attempt

photo / desktop

… indexing images of your photo album

Desktop???

Third attempt

mobile!

… indexing photo and video…

… on mobile

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Series B!

Hello to Silicon Valley

Mobile it is.

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Mobile!

Effortless Socializing

The Viewdle Social Camera, a free app for Android devices, suggests names of people in photos taken by an Android smartphone by comparing their

faces to a database of friends tagged in a person's Facebook account. Viewdle works completely on the smartphone so images don't need to be

slowly uploaded to a remote server each time a face is identified.

Viewdle's future plans sound exciting: Devices with enough processor power, including some that are out now, will be able to display photos captured

on the smartphone with each person's most recent Facebook status update shown in bubbles above their heads.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703922804576301153452838860.html

May 4, 2011

We even made a game

… that lasted…

… 2 weeks

2011

The

4th

attempt

OEM

Mobile devices

Imaging

Google/Motorola

2012