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"To accomplish the 5.9 percent error rate, which beats a 6.3 percent record set just last month, the Microsoft team leveraged neural language models resembling associative word clouds. That is, a word like "fast" resides much closer to "fast" than it does to "slow". This allowed the speech recognition engine to generalize between words and better recognize them in context. "

shopperception uses kinect sensors to spatial recognition capabilities to monitor the way shoppers interact with products on shelf -- how long they spend, which ones they touch, what are put back, and what are purchased

Blippar: image recognition app that works like a QR code (like last week's Old Navy app that scans from the logo)

it's really an image recognition tech called "clickable paper" but still cool nonetheless

Pedigree campaign out of NZ, matching people's faces to dogs at different SPCAs.

The Inspiration Corridor, a booth that uses facial and body recognition, as well as purchase histories, to suggest items to consumers and help locate them.

Apple bought the facial recognition/AR company behind the Recognizr prototype app. !!!

Weekly 9.30

Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a facial recognition system for cell phones that can track a user's features in real-time.

daily 12.16

coke uses facial recognition technology to create facebook posts.  users can post comments and pictures to their facebook account just by looking into the device and using their faces as identification