Neon Open is an open source AI platform that includes a convolutional deep neural network trained on the world’s largest and most comprehensive dataset that quantifies emotional responses to images operating out of the Viscog Research group at Carnegie Mellon University.
Neon was co-founded by Sophie Lebrecht and Michael J. Tarr in 2012 to help organizations with billions of raw images and video automatically scan through their content to select the most engaging images and video clips. In an effort to broaden distribution, the platform was released to the open source community in 2017 via the BSD 2-Clause license. Neon’s emotional image AI platform is now core to a number of leading media and advertising platforms, as well as research labs, and nonprofits that handle large amounts of images and video.
Neon was co-founded by Sophie Lebrecht and Michael J. Tarr in 2012 to help organizations with billions of raw images and video automatically scan through their content to select the most engaging images and video clips. In an effort to broaden distribution, the platform was released to the open source community in 2017 via the BSD 2-Clause license. Neon’s emotional image AI platform is now core to a number of leading media and advertising platforms, as well as research labs, and nonprofits that handle large amounts of images and video.
We are committed to building the most advanced model of human vision together.
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Visual intelligence has made giant leaps in the areas of object detection and scene recognition, yet to build a complete model of human perception we must train networks on higher-level representations, such as emotion. This is why we are opening our dataset, models, and methods.
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Neon Open contributors care about human emotion
Leadership
Neon Open is more than just this platform. It's a group of AI leaders who are working to make the future of AI more human, more inclusive, and more ethical. Our leadership council meets twice a year. Outcomes of the meetings will be published on the blog.
Neon Open is more than just this platform. It's a group of AI leaders who are working to make the future of AI more human, more inclusive, and more ethical. Our leadership council meets twice a year. Outcomes of the meetings will be published on the blog.
Support
The development of Neon Open has been supported through public grants and private investment, including:
National Science Foundation, Mohr Davidow Ventures.
The development of Neon Open has been supported through public grants and private investment, including:
National Science Foundation, Mohr Davidow Ventures.
Selected Awards
World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer (video)
Best New Product at National Association of Broadcasters Conference – Neon Live (video)
Most Creative People in Business, Fast Company (article)
Edison Award for Innovation (article)
Cannes Lions – selected to present at Innovation Festival
NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant, Phase I & II
World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer (video)
Best New Product at National Association of Broadcasters Conference – Neon Live (video)
Most Creative People in Business, Fast Company (article)
Edison Award for Innovation (article)
Cannes Lions – selected to present at Innovation Festival
NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant, Phase I & II
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