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AIMATTER specializes in building next-gen apps with proprietary advanced image processing technologies. Its SDK is able to run deep learning models in real time directly on smartphones.

Eyefluence, Inc. specializes in developing eye-interaction technology that enables control of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) head-mounted displays (HMDs) using eye movements. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Reno, Nevada, the company combines insights from eye biomechanics and the eye-brain connection to create the fastest interface for HMDs. Eyefluence serves manufacturers in the AR, VR, and MR sectors, focusing on enhancing human communication and interaction within these immersive environments. The company is led by experienced entrepreneurs Jim Marggraff and David Stiehr and boasts a multidisciplinary team of experts in various fields, including optics, engineering, and artificial intelligence. Eyefluence holds a robust intellectual property portfolio with over 30 patents, reflecting its commitment to innovation. The company collaborates with emerging startups and established Fortune 100 firms to promote the adoption of smart glasses for various applications across enterprise, industrial, government, and consumer markets. As of October 2016, Eyefluence operates as a subsidiary of Google Inc.

Moodstocks bridges the physical and digital worlds thanks to smartphone image recognition. They provide an API and a ready-to-use cross-platform SDK so that any developers can integrate scanning in minutes. Their award winning platform is robust, real-time and scalable. Give it a try!

Skillman & Hackett is a San Francisco design studio focused on Rapid Prototyping, Virtual Reality, and Future-Facing Technology. Their team has 20 years development experience on a variety of hardware platforms including Kinect, Kinect 2.0, Leap Motion Controller, PS4 Camera, Oculus, GameFace, Android and iPhone.

Vision Factory specialised in visual recognition systems and deep learning, applying artificial intelligence techniques to enhance the accuracy and speed of object recognition and other vision-based computer systems.

TaggPic geo-recognition technology analyzes photos based solely on visual features to recognize landmarks in digital photos, and the precise locations where the photos were captured. The Problem: Hundreds of millions of digital photos from around the world are uploaded to the Web every day. This explosion of pixel data is creating the need for fast, hyper-accurate, and automatic tagging of massive collections of images. The Solution: TaggPic technology is based solely on visual features, and does not require any metadata, such as GPS tags, manual tagging, or other location sensors, although it is capable of working with inputs from all three. The underlying algorithms can determine the precise position of the camera viewpoint in a geo-referenced coordinate system, even if no prior data about the photo’s location is known. TaggPic transforms static 2D photos into auto-tagged, geo-positioned, and intelligently connected platforms. TaggPic’s crowd-fueled computer vision technology instantly recognizes landmarks, buildings, and other objects in images without the need for GPS data or manual tagging.

Jetpac provides mobile travel recommendations by combining image processing, big data, mobile and social technology. The Jetpac City Guides iPhone app gives city guides for over 6000 cities around the world, from image processing of the world's Instagram photos.

Terra Bella is a private company that provides commercial, high-resolution satellite imagery and high-definition video and analytics services. It analyzes the movement of goods and people; and provides visual data about supply chains, shipping, industrial plant activity, and humanitarian relief efforts. Terra Bella (originally Skybox Imaging) was co-founded by Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwick, and Ching-Yu Hu in 2009 and is based in Mountain View, California, United States.

Tired of authentication tokens? Sick of typing passwords? SlickLogin creates the simplest login experience for you using your smartphone. Their product allows you to authenticate yourself just by placing your smartphone near your PC, no typing necessary. SlickLogin’s patented technology combines a seamless user experience with military-grade security, and will replace all authentication tokens that exist in the market today.

Flutter is a startup company that develops gesture recognition technologies. The company received early-stage funding from Y Combinator and was acquired by Google on October 2, 2013. Its first product, Flutter app, utilizes gesture recognition technology over a built-in webcam and enables users to control iTunes, Spotify, VLC, and QuickTime using hand gestures. Flutter was founded by Mehul Nariyawala and Navneet Dalal in 2010 and is based in California, United States.

Behavio, an MIT-Media Labs spin-off, develops software and services that allow mobile devices to sense, understand, and react to human behavior and context - enabling developers to easily build smart and context-aware apps and services. Behavio was a winner of the 2012 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s News Challenge on Networks. The team also develops and maintains Funf.org, the leading open source sensing platform for Android devices, which won the 2012 SXSW Accelerator competition as well as other awards and recognition.

DNNresearch, a young startup founded by professor Geoffrey Hinton and two of his grad students, Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever.

Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt) develops reliable face recognition software for images and video.

Like.com operates as a visual search engine that enables users to discover and compare similar products online. Unlike traditional image search engines, it utilizes advanced image recognition technology to index images based on their visual characteristics rather than just metadata or tags. This allows users to search for a wide range of products, including shoes, bags, watches, jewelry, and clothing, without the need for specific search terms. Users can either click on images displayed on Like.com to find similar items or enter descriptive phrases, which the platform translates into mathematical representations of visual signatures. These signatures consist of numerous variables that accurately represent each product's appearance. Future enhancements are expected to include the ability for users to upload images directly for searches, further broadening the scope of product discovery.

reCAPTCHA is a service that offers CAPTCHA challenges to help protect websites from bots while simultaneously aiding in the digitization of printed texts. It utilizes online puzzles that present words, often difficult for optical character recognition (OCR) software to interpret, to human users for deciphering. This process enhances the digitization of books, newspapers, and other printed materials by converting unreadable text into a format that can be accurately transcribed. In addition to facilitating text digitization, reCAPTCHA provides an effective mechanism for distinguishing human users from automated programs, thereby safeguarding websites from spam and other forms of abuse.

Neven Vision is a developer of mobile recognition engines for mobile phone and consumer electronics industries, and the government and private security sectors. Its solutions include i-Scout Visual Mobile Search, an object recognition platform that enables camera phones to recognize objects and provide relevant content to the user; Mobile Identifier platform, which employs biometric technology, including face recognition, fingerprint matching, and skin analysis to recognize and compare tattoos or license plates identifiers; and Mobile-i Facial Feature Tracking software that allows users to perform real-time or offline tracking of facial features on a live or recorded video stream. Neven Vision’s solutions are used for identity verification and video surveillance, mobile marketing campaigns, gaming and enhanced communication applications, and image-based mobile search platforms. Neven Vision was founded in 2003 by [Tak Miyata](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/tak-miyata) and is headquartered in Santa Monica, C.A., with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan; and Hamburg and Munich, Germany.