Matroid, a computer vision startup launching out of stealth today, enables anyone to take advantage of the information inherently embedded in video.You can build your own detector within the company’s intuitive, non-technical, web platform to detect people and most other objects.
Matroid’s comfort zone is picking out specified objects from video, rather than extracting insights from satellite or medical imagery.
Instead of whipping out TensorFlow or Google Cloud’s new Video Intelligence API, users simply upload a custom training set or choose from a curated library of hundreds of millions of images to establish their detector. Matroid can handle images and video clips during the training process. It uses multiple neural networks to process different types of inputs. When you add a video, you’ll be prompted to place bounding boxes over the important objects in the scene that will be used for training.
The question for Matroid is whether it can build its community fast enough to create something of sustaining value.
