LTU technologies has announced new updates to its image recognition platform including functionality optimized for mobile image matching. The company has also launched a new release of lookthatup, (www.lookthatup.com) an LTU-powered mobile application featuring visual search for the iPhone (see pics above).
LTU technologies has made its APIs open and with its newly introduced developer program the technology is readily available for developers looking to build and deploy mobile applications that integrate image recognition functionality – basically making it possible for anyone to build ‘Google Goggles – like’ applications
As far as the App foes, with lookthatup, iPhone users can simply point and tap to get more information about a given object. The application bridges the gap between offline and digital content by using an image taken with the phone, indexing it and matching it against an expansive online database of more than 2 million items. New content is added to the database daily, featuring varied items such as paintings from large museums, movie posters, DVD/CD covers and more. Users can instantly share their ‘lookups’ via Twitter, Facebook and email and can sign up for personal accounts on lookthatup.com which lets them bookmark and organize their favorite lookups online and make unmatched lookups searchable by adding them to the database.
Of course the best bit about all of this is that the App is free on the App Store – always a good price point for trying out new Apps to see how they work 🙂
Lookthatup (£free) [iTunes link]