Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

WayWay, OMB LABS

Participants : Matthijs Douze, Julien Mairal, Mattis Paulin, Jerome Revaud, Cordelia Schmid.

The collaboration with OMB Labs consisted of transferring technology developed at LEAR for large-scale image classification for the web application wayway.us. The company is developing a smartphone application for recommending restaurants and social places in US cities by exploiting image content from Instagram. Their system requires automatically classifying Instagram images into a few well-defined categories, “food", “people" and “atmosphere". Through a consulting project, with visits of engineers from OMB Labs, the team has helped them develop a full image classification pipeline to suit their industrial needs.