Friday 12 October 2018

Danish machine learning startup Spektral was acquired by which company?

  Danish machine learning startup Spektral  was acquired by which company?

options

1)Apple

2)Facebook

3)Google

4)Microsoft

answer

1)Apple


Other details

Apple secretly bought a Danish visual effects startup Spektral for over $30 million last year

 the acquisition of the Copenhagen-based startup was doen in December 2017

Apple has been to investing in Augmented Reality (AR) for some time.

  the latest acquisition may be aimed to boost the iPhone's AR features for Memoji or FaceTime as Apple reportedly plans to launch an AR headset soon.

Spektral uses Machine Learning (ML) and computer vision techniques to "cut out  people from video backgrounds in real time on smartphones.

this pioneering and unique technology is based on state-of-the-art Machine Learning and computer vision techniques.

 Combining deep neural networks and spectral graph theory with the computing power of modern GPUs, our engine can process images and video from the camera in real-time (60 fps) directly on the device

Apple acquired German eye-tracking startup SensoMotoric Instruments last year and AR lens company Akonia Holographics last month.

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