Google has said it was acquiring machine learning startup Moodstocks to boost its work around smartphone image and item recognition. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Moodstocks began developing image recognition technology in 2012, moving into object recognition technology, of late. Based in Paris, this startup said on its Website in an announcement that its “dream has been to give eyes to machines by turning cameras into smart sensors able to make sense of their surroundings.”
In a blog post, Vincent Simonet, head of Google’s France research and development center, highlighted the importance of Moodstock’s algorithms for visual recognition and machine learning.
Moodstocks is expected to join Google’s five-year-old research and development center in Paris, known for its work on YouTube, Chrome, and Cultural Institute, in addition to machine learning.
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