In an era of rapid advances in technology, visual content is separating the conventional textual solution technologies such as image recognition from 3D object and facial recognition.
Currently, image recognition is being used in almost every field of business, including infrastructure, security and surveillance, automotive safety, automatic driving and parking assistance, forensics and police, social media, biometric scanning equipment for medical sciences, and m-commerce.
The Global Image Recognition Market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20.76 percent over the period 2013-2018.
TechNavio analysts have pinpointed the top 12 image recognition software companies helping to fuel market growth during the forecast period:
Catchoom
“Catchoom is one of the leading vendors in the Global Image Recognition Market. The company offers app developers and software integrators the fastest and easiest way to connect and match images with interactive content in industries such as Gaming, Advertising, Publishing, and e-Commerce. The company’s 3D object recognition technology can be coupled with Intel’s Atom Processor to build effective marketing campaigns and smart maintenance applications.”
Honeywell International Inc.
“Honeywell is another leading vendor in the Global Image Recognition market. It is a globally diversified conglomerate engaged in designing and manufacturing products and services that serve a wide variety of industries, including Aerospace and Defense, Automotive and Transportation, Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals and Biofuels, Healthcare, and Construction. The company has a broad geographical base covering the US and the EMEA and APAC regions.”
iTraff Technology Sp. z o.o.
“iTraff Technology offers a mobile- and web-based image recognition platform to the e-Commerce, Retail, and Marketing industries to integrate image recognition into their applications and create mobile shopping experiences and advertising campaigns. Publishers, distributors, and advertisers are increasingly using iTraff’s image recognition applications to recognize real-life objects, graphics, posters, and newspapers.”
LTU Technologies SAS
“LTU delivers image recognition technologies to organizations through the LTU Engine, which is available as licensed software or SaaS. LTU Engine includes two standard image recognition technologies: Image Matching and Visual Similarity Search. The company’s image recognition technology has been successfully integrated with third-party solutions for media and advertisement tracking, mobile applications, stock photography, forensics, and e-discovery.”
Blippar
“Blippar is the world’s leading augmented reality and image recognition app. Millions of people are already ‘blipping’, unlocking everyday objects with their mobile phones and tablets to reveal hidden interactive experiences. Blippar is your free magic ‘lens’ to access exclusive content, offers and real-time information from your favourite brands, publishers and retailers.”
Hitachi
“The basic credo of Hitachi is to further elevate its founding concepts of harmony, sincerity and pioneering spirit, to instill a resolute pride in being a member of Hitachi, and thereby to contribute to society through the development of superior, original technology and products.
Deeply aware that a business enterprise is itself a member of society, Hitachi is also resolved to strive as a good citizen of the community towards the realization of a truly prosperous society and, to this end, to conduct its corporate activities in a fair and open manner, promote harmony with the natural environment, and engage vigorously in activities that contribute to social progress.”
NEC
“GAZIRU offers image recognition that can identify images acquired by snapping a recognition target with a smartphone. A database called a “dictionary” is created in advance from suitable images of objects to be recognized, and the target object is then identified using this dictionary.
NEC has begun to offer this service as a platform for new businesses that utilize smartphones. This enables many companies to easily use image recognition so that they can expect that their businesses will be expanded by creating new services and providing added value to existing services.”
Panasonic
“Image Capture Plus is an application that transfers image data scanned by a Panasonic high-speed document scanner to a PC in the form of an image file. This software lets you edit scanned pages (switch pages, delete pages, etc.) intuitively using thumbnail images. It also allows you to make various settings to facilitate complex scanning processes and serves as a powerful tool for efficiently processing routine business work, such as filing.”
Qualcomm
“The Vuforia platform, a product of Qualcomm Connected Experiences, Inc., enables augmented reality (AR) app experiences that are best in class and creative beyond definition. These experiences reach across most real world environments, giving mobile apps the power to see.
Vuforia is a software platform that uses top-notch, consistent, and technically resourceful computer vision-based image recognition and offers a wide set of features and capabilities, giving developers the freedom to extend their visions without technical limitations. With support for iOS, Android, and Unity, the Vuforia platform allows you to write a single native app that can reach the most users across a wide range of smartphones and tablets.”
Sharp Vision Software
“SVS image recognition & diagnostics software has implications for clinical research and for physicians. The IRD software parses images quickly to detect anomalies found in the body, and reports findings to assist with diagnosis.
The algorithms in our image recognition & diagnostics software are designed to detect anomalies and report plausible options for diagnosis. In addition, the more information the software receives, the more accurate it becomes at detecting anomalies, ultimately helping physicians make more informed decisions.”
Toshiba
“The powerful Visconti™ Series image recognition processor ICs are used in camera-based vision systems for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Visconti changes the way people drive by detecting and recognizing target objects such as humans, faces, hands, vehicles and processes image data from multiple camera inputs frame-by-frame and then outputs results to an LCD panel. The Visconti Series can monitor and detect a wide range of driving conditions.”
Wikitude
“Wikitude GmbH is the renowned pioneer of mobile augmented reality (AR) technology and the company behind a number of award winning AR solutions for smartphones, tablets and wearable display technologies. Its fully in-house developed AR solution is available in the Wikitude AR SDK and Wikitude Studio, and enables thousands of apps, brands, agencies, developers and AR enthusiasts to achieve their project goals.
With tens of thousands of developer accounts and published AR apps, Wikitude is the globally leading AR technology platform. The company chairs the international AR technology standardization as part of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).”
