User:GraphicCycle/Matroid
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| Industry | Computer software |
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| Founded | 2016 |
| Founder | Reza Zadeh |
| Headquarters | |
| Website | matroid.com |
Matroid is a Computer Vision company founded in 2016 in Palo Alto, giving typical computer users the ability to scan video using machine learning.
Product
[edit]The Matroid Product is a studio for creating and using detectors, giving users the ability to scan video for faces, actions, places, and other objects. Common examples include finding when former President Barack Obama appears on TV, or how often a man holding a gun is recorded in security footage. Users can easily write a filter—Matroid calls them "detectors"—of their own to find particular people or objects, or they can pick from a library of pre-programmed filters designed by users of the platform[1][2][3].
Matroid is initially focused on users who want to analyze television appearances or scan surveillance video. In the first case, a firm may want to track which political candidates got more TV time or which brand of car appears more often on a particular show or television network. Product features include a video player with computer vision at its core, a tight feedback loop for detector iteration, an extensive API, stream monitoring, and work-sharing amongst users to share detectors.
Scaled Machine Learning Conference
[edit]Matroid holds the Scaled Machine Learning Conference (ScaledML) every year, with the previous two conferences held on Stanford University campus[4]. In 2016, Microsoft announced "Open Mind", Microsoft's Visual Studio-like suite for machine learning at ScaledML 2016[5][6][7]. At Scaled ML 2017, Google announced the Tensor Processor Unit to speed up machine learning operations in Google Cloud Platform[8].
Funding
[edit]Matroid has raised $3.5 million dollars from New Enterprise Associates in funding in 2016[9][10].
Open Source
[edit]Matroid uses TensorFlow and Kubernetes, and is an active member of the TensorFlow open source community by holding TensorFlow tutorials[11] and writing a Deep Learning book on the topic with O'Reilly Media[12]. For its contributions to Open Source Machine Learning, at KDD 2016, Matroid was awarded a best paper award[13].
References
[edit]- ^ "This AI Company Can Tell You What and Who Appears in Your Videos". Bloomberg.com. 2017-03-25. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
- ^ Martin, Scott (2017-03-27). "A Life's Ambition, Matroid Launches". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
- ^ Mannes, John. "Matroid can watch videos and detect anything within them". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
- ^ "Scaled Machine Learning". scaledml.org. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
- ^ Foley, Mary Jo. "Open Mind: Microsoft's Visual Studio-like suite for machine learning | ZDNet". ZDNet. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
- ^ "Microsoft's Open Mind Studio is the "Visual Studio" for Machine Learning - Artificial Intelligence Online". Artificial Intelligence Online. 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
- ^ "Microsoft's Qi Lu reveals Open Mind, the "Visual Studio for Machine Learning" | On MSFT". On MSFT. 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
- ^ Dean, Jeff. "Scaling Machine Learning with TensorFlow" (PDF).
- ^ Martin, Scott (2017-03-27). "A Life's Ambition, Matroid Launches". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
- ^ "If you can't impose self-discipline, you can't be better off as a private company".
- ^ "Scaled Machine Learning". scaledml.org. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
- ^ Ramsundar, Bharath. "TensorFlow for Deep Learning". O'Reilly Media.
- ^ News, SIGKDD. "SIGKDD Awards : 2016 SIGKDD Best Paper Award Winners". www.kdd.org. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
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