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lookuq.com

35 pointsHuongngtm14 comments

Hi all, I am co-founder of Lookuq and want to explain a bit more about our idea.

There is a lot of apps to recognize some things. Popular example are PlantNet, PlantSnap for recognizing plants. They all have similar functionality, you take a picture of the object and then the app show you a list of objects it thinks what is it. Click on it, you can see more information about the object.

There are many things which visual identification is helpful, e.g. dog breed, animal, plant species, vintage watches, artworks, ...

Everyone is expert in something and may have a lot of images of the objects and information about it. They should be able to share this knowledge to other people.

With our Lookuq platform, it is super easy to create an object recognizer app without coding. All you need is photos of the objects and some information about the objects in tabular form (CSV, Excel format). Then you can upload it to our website, let the system automatically create and train the model to recognize the objects. After that just use our pre-made app (available on both iOS and Android) to recognize the objects and show related information to the objects.

I would love to know what you think about it?

Maybe this is something you want to keep internal to your company, but can you say anything about the model architecture being used here?

I can not tell much about the model architecture. We have some proprietary technology to reduce the amount of images needed for training and to increase accuracy.

How many images does your app typically need to avoid overfitting?

The number of images depends on several factors like the total number of objects, the variation of images, visually difference between objects, etc.

We have developed some proprietary technology to reduce the amount of images needed. In general each object should have 10-100 images to avoid overfit.

- Will you ever have an API for this?

- Will this work with abstract elements like symbols rendered on a screen?

Yes, there will be an API to use the object recognizer with other apps or website. We have pre-made both the iOS and Android app because many users can not or do not have time to create the app.

And yes it will also work with any symbols or diagrams rendered on screen. Almost everything we human can visually recognize will work.

Hi all!

My team has been working on a B2B visual recognition startup, but we think we may make our platform available for anyone. The idea is that anyone can make an image recognition app without coding. The app could be used as an object recognizer or a visual dictionary.

The app has image management and content management features for creators. Then public users can use its search function. If you have a team, you can manage access control within the app.

We are not in the situation where we can make automatic sign-up yet. Though the product is ready, our idea in terms of business is still very early. For now, you all can try our app, just give me an extra step to create an account for you.

Is the purpose of making it available to anyone to crowd source images and metadata?

App creators own the data and decide who get access or get to use their search model. We don't. But yes, the more recognition models are made, the more benefit public users will get out of it.

Quite interesting! I can see many benefits for leveraging your platform. Curious, how is the name pronounced? (I don't want to seem a fool as I mention this platform to my peers.) Is it pronounced similar to "look-yoo-que" or "loo-cook" or "look-uck"??? Thanks!

The name Lookuq came from "look up" and should have the same meaning. But the domain lookup.com is not available. So we just switched the last character from "p" to "q" to have the domain. We pronounce Lookuq as "look up".

Thanks so much! You may want to consider adding this note to your website (maybe in an "About" section). I can imagine many visitors would be curious about the name too. Plus, what you encountered with domain name conflict is an issue that we've all been struck by; so you are not alone! Kudos again for your platform!

Thanks, nice suggestion!

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