Hello everyone! We’ve got a new blog post for you.
In the fast growing AI (Artificial Intelligence) market, we’re excited to introduce our cutting-edge AI pose estimation engine ‘VisionPose‘ that uses web cameras and deep learning. Since its release, Visionpose has been purchased by more than 400 companies, including Toyota, Honda and many other big companies.
But that’s not all, our dedication to innovation has led us to develop two additional AI systems: ‘VP-Motion‘ for behavior analysis and ‘VP-Ergono‘ for Ergonomic Evaluation, originated from VisionPose. Our passion for these innovations continues to grow.
Our company shares everything from daily development updates to seemingly funny tweets in our SNS like Facebook and Twitter. Recently, I collected information on AI web application services that are accessible via browser. I thought it would be beneficial to share to everyone and summarize them in a blog post!
They are all easily accessible, so feel free to check them out at your convenience.
AvatarSDK
I’m very greatful for the itSeez3D scanning app, and recently I tried out a demo of a 3D avatar creation SDK developed by itSeez3D, which incorporates AI technology.
It allows you to create a 3D avatar from a single face photo, which is quite unusual among recent 3D avatar creation tools. However, I noticed that the avatars turns out to be cuter than the real person.
Realizing this, I felt a bit disappointed. I attempted to minimize the disparity between the avatars and reality by using various photos of my face. In the end, I ended up with some rather peculiar-looking faces, as you can see in the final part of the video.
■ Click here for the demo. Please feel free to try it out if you’d like.
Talk to Books
How do you find the book you want at a bookstore?
If you’ve already decided which book you want, you probably search by typing the title and author’s name into a search engine right?
But what if you’re not sure about the book you want?
In such cases, you’ll need to search for a book that catches your interest with litttle information.
Until now, people would often ask bookstore staff or librarians for help, but now, Google introduced a demo called ‘Talk to Books.’ With this demo, instead of using keywords, you can ask questions at the sentence level, and it will introduce books related to that sentence from among 100,000 books in Google Books.
For example, when you ask, How do you make sushi? you’ll be introduced to books that containing recipes and instructions for making sushi.
Please feel free to try. With this technology, you can discover your desired books more quickly, which is exciting for the future.
■ Click here to try
https://books.google.com/talktobooks/
SEMANTRIS
Let me to introduce the most exciting game that created the biggest buzz within our company using AI (machine learning): SEMANTRIS.
This is a game that can be played on a browser using semantic technology also used in Google search. Today, I tried the ARCADE version, and it’s surprisingly fun, reminiscent of Tetris.
The rules are simple! Just type words related to the specified word, and they’ll be arranged in order of relevance. The letters within the range will disappear. If the words pile up to the top, it’s game over.
※Writing related words that have the highest relevance to the specified word will make more words disappear.
By the way, the highest score achieved within our company was 3160 points.
Even those with vocabulary skills equivalent to junior high school students can enjoy this game. Nonetheless, you’ll need at least a basic understanding of English to comprehend the meanings of the words.
■ Click here to try
https://research.google.com/semantris/
khrome
This may sound sudden, but creating a color palette can be quite challenging, isn’t it?
When creating a new blog, websites, or any other web content, it’s best to decide on a color scheme at first. But it’s often difficult to know which colors will match…
A service that can help you at such times is here!
Introducing ‘Khrome,’ a web application where artificial intelligence suggests color palettes based on your favorite colors!
The usage is simple: just select your favorite colors from a selection of 50!
The image above shows a color palette composed of colors preferred by our PR department, and it’s really cute.
■ Click here to try
Emoji Scavenger Hunt
Google has announced a mini-game utilizing artificial intelligence technology.
It’s called Emoji Scavenger Hunt!
In this game, you have to find the emoji indicated and capture it with the camera within the given time to clear the task.
You can experience it on your smartphone, and it’s really exciting!
■ Click here to try
https://experiments.withgoogle.com/emoji-scavenger
Click LAUNCH EXPERIMENT!
Looka
Do you find logo design challenging?
It may seem easy to convey the essence of a product or company within a small space, but it’s actually quite difficult.
At time like that, why not try Looka, a service that utilizes AI technology to create logo designs?
It offers various logo suggestions based on the fonts, colors, icons, and other elements you choose.
I tried creating it with NextSystem’s logo, and while it’s a simple design with just text and an icon, it turned out to be very stylish.
To download, you must pay, but it seems useful for for providing guidance to designers and can also be used as design proposals.
■ Click here to try
Quick, Draw!
Refresh your tired mind with a game using Google’s machine learning!
It’s called ‘Quick, Draw!’
In this mini-game, users have to draw the specified topic within a certain time and let the machine guess it. The game is won if the machine correctly guesses all six topics, which makes it quite fun.
By the way, the more you play, the smarter the artificial intelligence gets.
Personally, it was difficult to draw rhinoceros. How would you draw it??
■ Click here to try
https://experiments.withgoogle.com/quick-draw
Click LAUNCH EXPERIMENT!
Scrying Pen
The mini-game ‘Quick, Draw!’ introduced earlier is a game where users draw pictures of specified topics and let the machine guess them.
Now, I’d like to introduce ‘Scrying Pen,’ a system that predicts the next line drawn by AI using the learning data collected from ‘Quick, Draw!’
The attached image is a drawing in progress of a cat, with the theme set as ‘cat’. The green lines represent the lines predicted by artificial intelligence (machine learning). You can see that the AI is attempting to draw the mouth and whiskers of the cat.
While it doesn’t particularly do anything special, but it might be interesting to know what kind of recognition artificial intelligence (machine learning) is performing.
■ Click here to try
https://experiments.withgoogle.com/scrying-pen
Click LAUNCH EXPERIMENT!
AutoDraw
The ‘AutoDraw’ tool we’re introducing here is different from the ‘Scrying Pen’ system we mentioned earlier. AutoDraw goes a step further—it actually draws everything for you.
No matter how untalented a person may be at drawing, AutoDraw apparently recognizes what you’re trying to draw and suggests illustrations drawn by professional designers.
So, i decided to try it by asking one of our company’s employees, who admits to not being very good at drawing, to draw a ‘kangaroo’ and see if AutoDraw could guess what it was supposed to be.
Wow! This is awsome. Even though this drawing doesn’t really resemble a kangaroo, AutoDraw still estimated it correctly.
We also had them draw the ‘Statue of Liberty.’ This must be quite challenging for AI as well.
Let’s see…
AI still estimated correctly!
After all, this AI left behind a memorable quote: “Even if it doesn’t convey to people, it will convey to AI.”
■ Click here to try
https://experiments.withgoogle.com/autodraw
Click LAUNCH EXPERIMENT!
waifu2x
When you search for images on the internet to use as wallpaper for your PC, you may find that some images cannot be set as wallpaper due to their size.
In such situations, I highly recommend waifu2x!
Although this tool has been around for several years, it’s a tool that uses AI to enhance the roughness of images and create smooth enlarged images. I recently found it, and it’s incredibly useful!
It used to be exclusively for illustrations, but recently, it seems that it has also been adapted for photos, making it even more convenient.
The image above has been enhanced using waifu2x to correct its low resolution, resulting in a noticeable improvement in smoothness.
So, why not give it a try when you’re struggling with the size of images?
■ Click here to try
https://waifu2x.udp.jp/index.html
Let’s Enhance
Previously, I introduced ‘waifu2x,’ a tool that uses AI to enhance low-resolution images into larger and clearer ones. However, I discovered a similar tool called ‘Let’s Enhance‘ and decided to give it a try.
With ‘Let’s Enhance,’ you can process up to five images per day, and membership registration is required to download. However, if it can create better images than ‘waifu2x,’ it might be worth trying. So, I used both tools and compared the results, as shown in the image above. (Let’s Enhance uses a processing method called Magic.)
While ‘waifu2x’ provides a smoother and slightly blurred outline, ‘Let’s Enhance’ seems to have a clear outline but a slightly grainier texture…
It ultimately depends on personal preference. Which one do you prefer?
■ Click here to try
Giorgio Cam
I’ll introduce you to ‘Giorgio Cam,’ an AI-powered rapper announced by Google, which I found quite interesting!
Click on ‘LAUNCH EXPERIMENT’ from the link below, and you’ll be greeted with cool music as well as synthesized male vocals delivering some catchy lyrics along with the music.
During the process, you’ll be instructed to take a picture with your camera. Once you’ve taken the picture, the AI will recognize objects in the image and start expressing lyrics tailored to those objects.
It’s impressive how this AI manages to rhyme so accurately!
■ Please try it from here. Probably, everyone’s heads will nod up and down.
https://experiments.withgoogle.com/giorgio-cam
Teachable Machine
You often hear about AI, but you’re not quite sure what it’s all about! Right?
To truly understand something, don’t you think it’s best to try it out rather than just hearing about it or seeing it?
Well, guess what? Even if you’re not an engineer, Google has made it possible for anyone to easily experience machine learning through a tool called ‘Teachable Machine‘ that runs right in your browser!
With this tool, all you have to do is simply capture images of things you want to teach (up to three types), and the system will recognize which one is shown and reflect different results based on what is captured. It’s amazing! And so easy to use!
Since it’s truly easy to experience with just simple clicks, I highly encourage everyone to try it out and have fun teaching various objects to be recognized by the system.
■ Click here to try
https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/
HUMANALITY
Apparently, you can now discover your personality with the assistance of artificial intelligence.
HUMANALITY is a new personality test designed to enhance self-awareness. Using AI technology, it comprehensively analyzes various aspects of your personality to help you understand yourself better and improve your relationships.
I decided to try it out for self-reflection purposes. To view my results, please check the attached image below.
Also, it’s completely free, requiring only the completion of a few questions.
■ Click here to try
Conclusion
Here’s a summary of what we’ve introduced so far.
Many of the topics we’ve discussed are also featured on Google’s AI Experiments. AI Experiments showcases various demonstrations on a website where users can explore the outcomes of AI research.
As new services continue to emerge, I encourage everyone to check them out!
Furthermore, our company is also engaged in AI development, specializing in image recognition. We have developed products such as VisionPose, an AI system for posture estimation that can detect human skeletal information using only a camera.
In addition to VisionPose, we have developed several other innovative products, including VP-Motion and VP-Ergono. Make sure to check them out!
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