{"id":5832,"date":"2017-08-22T08:49:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T15:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2017-08-22T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T15:55:35","slug":"style-transfer-computer-vision-as-a-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/22\/style-transfer-computer-vision-as-a-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Style transfer &#038; computer vision as a service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The makers of the popular Prisma style-transfer app are branching into <a href=\"https:\/\/prismalabs.ai\/\">offering an SDK<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[U]nderstand and modify the content of an image by encapsulating powerful machine learning models in an easy-to-use REST API or SDK for iOS or Android apps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One example use is <a href=\"https:\/\/sticky-ai.com\/\">Sticky AI<\/a>, a super simple app for creating selfie stickers &amp; optionally styling\/captioning them.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/08\/19\/prisma-shifts-focus-to-b2b-with-an-api-for-ai-powered-mobile-effects\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>, Prisma shares at least one investor with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fab.by\/\">Fabby<\/a>, the tech\/SDK that Google <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/16\/sht-gets-real-google-acquires-aimatter-maker-of-the-fabby-computer-vision-app\/\">acquired<\/a> last week. Meanwhile, there\u2019s also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjreddie.com\/darknet\/yolo\/?ref=producthunt\">YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VOC3huqHrss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NewImage-27.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"164\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This mass proliferation of off-the-shelf computer vision makes me think of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/anildash.com\/2011\/01\/mom-and-pop-at-web-scale.html\">Mom &amp; Pop at Web scale<\/a>: It&#8217;s gonna enable craziness like when Instagram was launched by two (!) guys thanks to the existence of AWS, OAuth, etc. It\u2019ll be interesting to see how, thanks to Fabby &amp; other efforts, Google can play a bigger part in enabling mass experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VOC3huqHrss\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The makers of the popular Prisma style-transfer app are branching into offering an SDK: [U]nderstand and modify the content of an image by encapsulating powerful machine learning models in an easy-to-use REST API or SDK for iOS or Android apps. One example use is Sticky AI, a super simple app for creating selfie stickers &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5834,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions\/5834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}