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PastBook launches AI-driven photobook app New Products 

PastBook launches AI-driven photobook app

Amsterdam-based photo products company PastBook launched an AI-powered iOS app. The company claims its “industry-first” artificial technology allows consumers to create a photo book in less than 60 seconds by simply selecting a time range or location. Once the AI picks the best photos for the final book, it smart-groups them into curated page layouts and presents a preview that... Read More
MyHeritage updates popular Deep Nostalgia animations New Products 

MyHeritage updates popular Deep Nostalgia animations

Family history site MyHeritage is building off its popular “Deep Nostalgia” AI face animation technology with 10 additional animation styles. Since launching five weeks ago, more than 72 million family photos have been animated using 10 original “animation drivers,” available for free. The new 10 animations are available only to MyHeritage Complete plan members. The 10 new special animations are:... Read More
Shootsta launches AI video creation app for sales executives New Products 

Shootsta launches AI video creation app for sales executives

Singapore-based Shootsta launched an AI-powered application called “Elevate” that helps sales teams easily create personalized branded videos for their prospects. The app contains pre-set scripts, an autocue for filming the video, and options for branding and cutaway vision. Once the raw footage is submitted, the video is automatically edited within three minutes by the tool’s AI, the company claims. The target... Read More
Dead Pixels Society podcast: Excire launches AI-powered image management tool, Excire Foto News Podcasts 

Dead Pixels Society podcast: Excire launches AI-powered image management tool, Excire Foto

Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Erhardt Barth, co-founder of Excire Inc., about the company’s new desktop-based image management tool, Excire Foto. Excire Foto is a powerful app designed for easy photo management and quick content-based browsing. As a local program, it doesn’t require cloud computing and therefore has built-in privacy. Pageau and Barth discuss the company’s background,... Read More
PicsArt launches AI-powered music for Its photo/video app Updates 

PicsArt launches AI-powered music for Its photo/video app

PicsArt is integrating unique machine-generated audio compositions into its video editor on iOS, with plans to launch on Android later this year. Like a movie score composer, this effect helps determine the unique mood of a video, producing a soundtrack molded to fit. With this tool, PicsArt becomes the first editing app to integrate generative AI music, the company claimed.... Read More
Perfect launches of YouCam for Web AR try-on solution New Products 

Perfect launches of YouCam for Web AR try-on solution

Perfect Corp., the maker of the virtual beauty app, YouCam Makeup, launched YouCam for Web helping “indie beauty businesses leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) innovation to drive their businesses,” the company said. The new YouCam for Web service offers an affordable self-service web plug-in designed to help seamlessly integrate YouCam’s award-winning virtual beauty try-on... Read More
Dreamstime releases proprietary AI tech to third parties News 

Dreamstime releases proprietary AI tech to third parties

Dreamstime, the world’s largest community in stock photography, with 27 million users and more than 118 million images, recently released its proprietary Artificial Intelligence technology (AI) to third party companies. Implemented on Dreamstime’s website in 2017, PhotoEye technology uses sophisticated algorithms to screen and optimize images and uses machine learning to constantly adjust parameters to improve its capabilities, the company... Read More
Skylum announces Luminar 4 AI enhancements Nov. 18 New Products News Press releases Updates 

Skylum announces Luminar 4 AI enhancements Nov. 18

Image editing made extraordinarily fast through AI advancements in Luminar Flagship software to bring innovative machine-learning tools and workflow to photographers as both a standalone application and plugin. BELLEVUE, WA – October 15, 2019 — Skylum is pleased to announce additional enhancements coming to Luminar 4 to be shipped on November 18, 2019. The release intends to change the way... Read More
Skylum brings AI-powered portrait and skin enhancement tools to Luminar 4 New Products News Press releases Updates 

Skylum brings AI-powered portrait and skin enhancement tools to Luminar 4

New human-aware tools to help photographers make portraits look amazing in less than 60 seconds — without the need for selections or masks. BELLEVUE, WA – September 17, 2019 — Today, Skylum has announced two major new features coming to Luminar 4, set to be released this fall. AI Skin Enhancer and Portrait Enhancer will enable photographers to further develop... Read More
Kitamura Holdings group company releases SARAH.AI, a photobook app developed by photobook.ai New Products Press releases Updates 

Kitamura Holdings group company releases SARAH.AI, a photobook app developed by photobook.ai

SARAH.AI finds stories and curate photos to make photobooks automatically.  Each user gets a free 24-page book each month 15th July 2019, Tokyo and Singapore –  photobook.ai, the developer of artificial intelligence storytelling apps and a leader in edge-computing visual intelligence technologies, has released their first white-label app for the Japanese pocket photobook consumer market. Sarah.ai, from Cheetah, automatically analyzes... Read More
Vivo brings elevating front camera to V15Pro New Products Press releases 

Vivo brings elevating front camera to V15Pro

All in One Affordable Device Packs Game-changing Elevating Front Camera, In-Display Fingerprint Scanning and Powerful AI Triple Camera SHENZHEN, China, Feb. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Vivo today unveiled the all-new V15Pro smartphone in key markets starting in India. The V15Pro is Vivo’s first model after the NEX to incorporate the industry’s first Elevating Front Camera. It packs upgraded AI technology, bringing consumers a... Read More
Besomebody acquires artificial intelligence startup Pixelbug Acquisitions Press releases 

Besomebody acquires artificial intelligence startup Pixelbug

Acquisition will add AI, AR and VR capabilities and expertise to Besomebody’s growing suite of products and services CINCINNATI, Feb. 6, 2019 /CNW/ – Besomebody, Inc., a Cincinnati-based business innovation firm that specializes in skills-focused job training programs and employer services, announced today the acquisition of Pixelbug Technologies Inc., augmented reality and artificial intelligence startup headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Financial terms of the deal were... Read More
How AI is going to shake up the volume photography market Events Opinion Sponsored post 

How AI is going to shake up the volume photography market

Recently, the photobook.ai team had the opportunity to attend the Sports and Schools Annual Conference (SPAC) in Las Vegas, Nev. It was our first time attending the show, and we were impressed by the opportunity for artificial intelligence and, in particular, for facial recognition to reinvigorate the industry. It’s no secret the buy rates in the school and events industry... Read More