Have you ever wondered how Amazon Echo understands what you’re saying even though you asked it something in a different way than your spouse? How does it know what you mean when you say “Whats the weather going to be like tomorrow?” versus “Tell me if its going to rain later”? Perhaps you’ve wished to…
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In the first week of January, the United Kingdom began enforcing a new series of regulations for its financial services community. The current version of The Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) is legislation structured to strengthen investor protection, ensure orderly markets, minimize risk, and bolster market efficiency. The regulation underscores transparency to promote…
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Imagine what a boost your pitches to potential customers would get by solving problems using state-of-the-art machine learning. Sprinkling some artificial intelligence in the right place can produce staggering results. It’s a great way to stand out among your competition and win more business. Building machine learning into your apps can be a daunting prospect;…
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Machine Box’s Tagbox is a state-of-the art image recognition model that runs on premises and comes with a training API built-in. More than one Machine Box customer has asked about detecting when there are color bars, black video, end credits, and production logos in their media assets using Tagbox. They have oodles of archival video footage that…
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Let’s say you want to anonymise images by hiding any detected face, just by tweaking the srcattribute of the <img> tag in HTML. If we build a proxy server that does the work for us, we can prepend that server’s endpoint to any image and have them anonymised on their way to the browser, without touching (or owning)…
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Mixing Videobox+Nudeboxallows you to get an idea of where nudity occurs in a video. Using that information, it’s possible to use ffmpeg to create a new video with the nude bits cut out. This could be used to create a family-friendly version of a movie, or a version of the video that’s suitable for cultures where nudity is less…
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Machine Box puts state-of-the-art Machine Learning technology inside Docker containers, making it the easiest way for developers to build and deploy artificial intelligence into their apps. Head over to the Machine Box website https://machinebox.io/ to get started. What problems does Machine Box solve? Machine Box addresses a range of artificial intelligence use cases including facial detection and recognition, image classification, video processing, natural…
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With the new features of Tagbox it is possible to build your own classifier, to help you to do image recognition. But another important feature that we are going to explore is the image similarity endpoint /tagbox/similar to make a Search Engine and get images that are similar to each other. With that endpoint you will…
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Companies are trying to understand the content of their videos, automatically and at very large scale. So far, Machine Box boxes were built for images, but today we are introducing Videobox: a simple and effective way to bring video support to Facebox, Tagbox and Nudebox. What is Machine Box? Machine Box puts state of the art machine…
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Each day, more than 90 people die from opioid overdoses in the United States, twice the death rate suffered by U.S. soldiers during the peak year of the Vietnam War. To address this crisis, an Indianapolis firm is employing AI data analysis techniques to track narcotics abuse trends in real time, helping agencies target their…
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