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Polarr - we try to build machines to understand human's aesthetics in photography.

Polarr Box, https://www.polarr.co/box Also Polarr Editor, https://www.polarr.co/editor

Ya'll Photo startups, where are you?

Jon Oringer, the CEO/founder of Shutterstock, mentioned that the industry is badly in need of "a way to automatically choose visually pleasing photos according to exposure, contrast, shadows, and objects to choose a handful of photos worthy of publishing."

Tried looking for the article but couldn't. Definitely B2B type of product.

It'd be interesting to see a before/after photo to see what your AI can do to a given photo.

There you go http://streetviewphotographs.tumblr.com/ (we manage the account and photos are retouched by the engine)

that seems to be showing the 'after' photos, can you see a before photo somewhere, to see the difference?

the link underneath directs you to the "before".

Ahh, I see.

I'm curious if they're using any learning algorithms here, where the computer 'learns' how to re-touch the photos. Or if its a more simple list of rules, i.e make these colors darker / brighter.

The learning happens on the level of seeing what would a human retoucher does by using the data we gathered from the editor: https://www.polarr.co/editor

That's very clever. Did you get in?

We got an invite. Thanks for asking.

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