Euvision acquired by Qualcomm
Euvison a spin-off of the University of Amsterdam has been acquired by
Qualcomm, the world leader in next-generation mobile chip technology.
Euvision is a company which originated in the ISIS research group,
headed by Arnold Smeulders, one of the active groups in Amsterdam Data
Science.
The company has built upon the state-of-the-art software resulting from
ten years of active participation in international benchmarks on the
recognition of objects, scenes and people in large-scale image and video
collections. The joint team from UvA and Euvision, lead by Cees Snoek,
in recent years
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