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Diamond Sponsors

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Megvii Technology Ltd.

Founded in October 2011, Megvii is an Artificial Intelligence company specialized in providing enterprises and developers with intelligent solutions and data services. Megvii holds more than 600 domestic and international patents. Over six years of development, Megvii has gathered a workforce of over 1000 people, among whom more than 60% are R&D staffs.


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Microsoft Corporation

At Microsoft, we aim to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We care deeply about having a global perspective and making a difference in lives and organizations in all corners of the planet. This involves playing a small part in the most fundamental of human activities: Creating tools that enable each of us along our journey to become something more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and we aim to enable our customers to thrive in this world. Visit us at booth #537 to chat with our experts, see demos of our latest research, and find out about career opportunities with Microsoft. aka.ms/CVPR-2018.


Platinum Sponsors

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Alibaba Group

ALIBABA GROUP'S MISSION IS TO MAKE IT EASY TO DO BUSINESS ANYWHERE. We enable businesses to transform the way they market, sell and operate. We provide the fundamental technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands and other businesses to leverage the power of the Internet to engage with their users and customers. Our businesses are comprised of core commerce, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, innovation initiatives and others. Through investee affiliates, Cainiao Network and Koubei, respectively, we participate in the logistics and local services sectors.


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Apple Inc.

We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as with services, including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.


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Bytedance Inc.

Founded in 2012, Bytedance owns a series of content platforms that enable people to connect with, consume, and create content through machine learning technology. Bytedance's flagship product, Toutiao, is the largest AI-powered mobile content platform in China. Toutiao delivers personalized content recommendations to every user based on their interests. Bytedance also operates a series of products popular with mobile users around the world, including musical.ly, Tik Tok, News Republic and Vigo Video. In 2016, Bytedance established an AI Lab which builds on the company's vast and complex datasets to develop state-of-the-art innovations in artificial intelligence.


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Didi Chuxing

Didi Chuxing (“DiDi”) is the world’s leading mobile transportation platform. The company offers a full range of app-based transportation options for over 450 million users, including Taxi, Express, Premier, Luxe, Hitch, Bus, Minibus, Designated Driving, Enterprise Solutions, Bike, and food delivery. Over 21 million drivers use the DiDi platform to find flexible work and income opportunities. DiDi is committed to collaborating with cities, the taxi industry and communities to solve the world’s transportation, environmental, and employment challenges with smart transportation innovations. DiDi has formed a global rideshare partnership network with Grab, Lyft, Ola, Uber, 99, Taxify, and Careem, reaching over 80% of the world’s population. By continuously improving the user experience and creating social value, DiDi strives to build an open, efficient, and sustainable transportation ecosystem. For more information, please visit http://www.didichuxing.com/en/


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Huawei Technologies

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. Founded in 2012, Noah's Ark Lab is the AI research centre for Huawei Technologies. We undertake following primary domains: Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Search & Recommendation, Decision & Reasoning, AI Theory, to drive fundamental R&D in Artificial Intelligence. Our mission is to build AI technology practical to solve real world problems. We entail cutting-edge AI technologies including deep learning, reinforcement learning and unsupervised learning, etc. in multiple areas including network intelligence (automatic control, security and maintenance), enterprise intelligence (safe city, smart supply chain, smart accounting, etc.) and terminal intelligence (AI camera, HiVision, HiVoice, personalized recommendation, etc.).


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Lyft, Inc.

Level 5 is Lyft's self-driving division, in Palo Alto, CA and Munich, Germany. Our goal is to democratize access to self-driving transportation for hundreds of millions of Lyft passengers. We're equipping vehicles with the latest advancements in sensor technology, leveraging data from the ten million Lyft rides completed every week, and applying deep learning to train our self-driving system. Lyft was founded in June 2012 to improve people's lives with the world's best transportation. Lyft is the fastest growing rideshare company in the U.S. Lyft is preferred by drivers and passengers for its safe and friendly experience, and its commitment to effecting positive change for the future of our cities. See our open roles at lyft.com/level5.


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Momenta, established in 2016, is one of the leading autonomous driving companies in the world. Momenta aims to build the “Brains” for autonomous vehicles. Our deep-learning based software in perception, HD semantic mapping, and data-driven path planning enables the realization of full autonomy. Momenta offers multi-level autonomous driving solutions as well as big data services. Momenta’s team is composed of some of the world’s foremost experts on computer vision and deep learning, including one of the authors of Faster R-CNN and ResNet, the most influential deep learning network, and winners of various top Computer Vision Competitions (ImageNet 2015, MS COCO Challenge 2015, ImageNet 2017, etc.). Group members mainly come from top universities and research institutions such as Tsinghua University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Microsoft Research Asia, and well-known technology companies such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei and SenseTime. Momenta is leading the autonomous driving software space with advanced technical competence and a strong commitment to innovation.


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OPPO

OPPO is a camera phone brand enjoyed by many young people around the world. For the last ten 10 years, OPPO has been focusing on manufacturing camera phones, while innovating mobile photography with technology breakthroughs. OPPO started the era of selfie beautification and was the first brand to introduce the motorized rotating camera, the Ultra HD feature and the 5x Dual Camera Zoom technology. In 2017, OPPO was ranked as the number 4 in global smartphone shipment, according to IDC. And today, OPPO provides excellent smartphone experience to over 200 million young people around the world.


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Samsung Research America

Samsung's mission is to inspire the world with innovative technologies, products, and designs that enrich people’s lives and contribute to a socially responsible, sustainable future.


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Shanghai Yitu Technology Co.,Ltd.

Founded in September 2012, YITU Tech is committed to artificial intelligence research and innovation. By integrating state-of-the-art AI technology with business applications, we aim to build a safer, faster and healthier world.


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Tencent Technology(Shenzhen) Co,. Ltd

Founded in November, 1998, Tencent is a leading provider of Internet value added services in China. Presently, Tencent provides social platforms and digital content services under the “Connection” Strategy. Tencent’s leading Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), Weixin/WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, and Tenpay – have brought together China's largest Internet community, to meet the various needs of Internet users including communication, information, entertainment, financial services and others. The development of Tencent has profoundly influenced the ways hundreds of millions of Internet users communicate with one another as well as their lifestyles.


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Uber

At Uber, we’re building something people use every day. From how you get home from work, to how you eat meals, or how you move huge shipments of absolutely anything, the work we contribute moves the world a few steps forward. Our teams are focused on self-driving technologies, mapping, vehicle safety, urban aviation, optimizing cities, and much more to improve the lives of millions of people worldwide. http://careersinfo.uber.com/cvpr2018 t.uber.com/cvpr18


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Xilinx, Inc.

Xilinx is the inventor of the FPGA, programmable SoCs, and now, the ACAP. Our highly-flexible programmable silicon, enabled by a suite of advanced software and tools, drives rapid innovation across a wide span of industries and technologies - from consumer to cars to the cloud. Xilinx delivers the most dynamic processing technology in the industry, enabling rapid innovation with its adaptable, intelligent computing. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.


Gold Sponsors

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Adobe Research

Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Our tools and services allow our customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time and achieve greater business success. We help our customers make, manage, measure and monetize their content across every channel and screen. https://research.adobe.com/


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AIBEE US CORPORATION

Aibee was founded by Dr. Yuanqing Lin in November 2017, aiming to upgrade the vertical industries with AI total solutions. Featuring an extensive and highly skilled R&D workforce, Aibee builds the closed loop of algorithms and data, and constantly refines AI technologies to perfect performance, to enable greater commercial success and more efficient operations for our customers. In consideration of the core value of vertical industries, Aibee develops solutions that may include computer vision, speech recognition, natural language understanding, big data analytics and more. You are invited to explore more about Aibee at: www.aibee.com


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Argo AI

At Argo AI, we're tackling one of the most challenging applications in computer science, robotics and artificial intelligence: vehicles that are fully autonomous and able to navigate city streets. We're led by self-driving experts with decades of experience in developing intelligent systems, and with the organizational leadership necessary to lead a successful, focused team.


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AIBEE US CORPORATION

Aibee was founded by Dr. Yuanqing Lin in November 2017, aiming to upgrade the vertical industries with AI total solutions. Featuring an extensive and highly skilled R&D workforce, Aibee builds the closed loop of algorithms and data, and constantly refines AI technologies to perfect performance, to enable greater commercial success and more efficient operations for our customers. In consideration of the core value of vertical industries, Aibee develops solutions that may include computer vision, speech recognition, natural language understanding, big data analytics and more. You are invited to explore more about Aibee at: www.aibee.com


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CVTE

CVTE research is the industrial research division of CVTE, a public company located in Guangzhou, China. It conducts basic as well as applied research in various fields, including: TV technology, smart home solutions, smart education technology, tele-health solutions, in-vehicle infotainment, commercial tele-conferencing/tele-collaboration technology, and robotics.


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Disney Research

Disney Research’s objective is to drive value across The Walt Disney Company by injecting scientific & technological innovation. Our world-class research seeks to invent and transfer the most compelling technologies enabling the company to differentiate its content, services, and products.


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iFlight Technology Company Limited (DJI)

Founded in 2006, DJI has quickly risen to become the world's leading producer of commercial and consumer UAVs, aerial gimbals, and ground-based camera stabilization systems. With a proven track record of delivering innovative products and unprecedented technological advancements, DJI continues living up to their slogan: The Future of Possible. We have invested resources on 2D/3D object detection and tracking, semantic scene understanding, stereo/flow estimation, face recognition, person re-identification, video understanding, pose estimation, 3D vision, autonomous navigation, deep network compression, and acceleration. We conduct highly-optimized software implementation to apply these research results in all our products, from consumer drones to mobile robotic systems.


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GumGum, Inc.

GumGum is an artificial intelligence company with a focus on computer vision. Our mission is to unlock the value of visual content produced daily across diverse data sets. We teach machines to see in order to solve hard problems. Since 2008, the company has applied its patented capabilities to serve a variety of industries from advertising to professional sports, with more to come.


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Hikvision

Hikvision is a leading provider of artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics and other emerging technologies, and is the world’s largest video surveillance manufacturer. Featuring an extensive and highly skilled R&D workforce, Hikvision manufactures a full suite of comprehensive products and solutions for a broad range of vertical markets. Beyond security, Hikvision products provide important data and business intelligence for end users, which can be used to enable greater commercial success and more efficient operations. Committed to the utmost quality and safety of its products, Hikvision encourages partners to take advantage of the many cybersecurity resources Hikvision offers, including the Hikvision Security Center.


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Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.

Honda Research Institute, USA was established in 2003 as North America's advanced research center that provides innovative solutions to complex problems with direct applications to Honda's current and future technology roadmap. Our team of scientists and engineers create technologies, often generated through a scientific process, and apply them to real situations, addressing more than just abstract principles. Our core principles include: (1) Maintaining a commitment to high quality and innovative research that supports Honda's short and long term strategy. (2) Fostering an open innovation model that establishes partnerships and alliances with academia and the private sector.


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JD.com

JD.com is China's largest online retailer and its biggest overall retailer, as well as the country's biggest Internet company by revenue. JD.com sets the standard for online shopping through its commitment to quality, authenticity, and its vast product offering covering everything from fresh food and apparel to electronics and cosmetics.


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Malong Technologies

Malong Technologies is on a mission to help its enterprise customers transform with AI to achieve higher efficiency, quality and safety, by creating machines that can "see" physical objects such as products -- just like a person can. Our world-class R&D team makes the technology available to any business via ProductAI® - cloud-based cognitive services & embedded systems.


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Mighty AI

Mighty AI is a data management platform for autonomous vehicle perception data. We provide all the software, expertise, and expert annotators needed to create ground truth datasets for vehicle perception models. We convert raw, unlabeled data into useful high-quality data, pairing machine learning with human intelligence to revolutionize how companies manage perception data.


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Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's North American research organization. MERL does application-motivated basic and applied research and advanced development in computer vision, Artificial Intelligence, physical simulation & modelling, optimization, controls, and signal processing. We are an open, multidisciplinary and collaborative research lab, publishing our results, collaborating with the world-wide research community, and measuring our performance by the impact we have on Mitsubishi Electric and the world. We are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts across the street from MIT and down the road from Harvard University, and recently celebrated our 25th year making MERL one of the older corporate R&D labs in the US.


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Nullmax

Founded in 2016, Nullmax is one of the leading autonomous driving companies in the world. We are dedicated to using most advanced computer vision, AI and Robotics technologies to provide the safest and most reliable L3/L4 self-driving system. Our team of talented scientists and experienced engineers are focused on delivering end-to-end autonomous driving solution to power the next revolution in transportation.


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Waymo

Waymo started as the Google self-driving car project in 2009 and is now an independent company working to make our roads safer, free up time, and improve mobility for everyone. Today, Waymo is the only company in the world with a fleet of fully autonomous cars on public roads. Our vehicles have self-driven over 6 million miles on public streets and another 5 billion miles in simulation, helping us to build the world's most experienced driver. With Waymo in the driver’s seat, we can reimagine many different types of transportation, from ride-hailing and logistics, to public transport and personal vehicles. To start, we're launching a driverless ride-hailing service later this year.


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Zhangjiang Yangtze Delta Hi-Tech City

Zhangjiang Yangtze Delta Hi-Tech City (http://www.zjkjy.cn/), China‘s First Cross Provincial Development Demonstration Zone, is located at the southwest of Shanghai City. It is to build the new center of tech innovation and creativity in China, welcoming companies all over the world especially in the industrial internet of things (IIoT), robotics, smart manufacturing, next generation communication technologies and bio-tech industries.


Silver Sponsors

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3DLOOK is a global company with headquarters in the USA, and 2 R&D centers in Ukraine and an office in the UK. 3DLOOK employs a highly professional team of machine learning, 3D design and computer vision experts. 3DLOOK has developed an instant human body measuring technology to change the way people solve many everyday tasks. This technology works on mobile devices and doesn’t require any additional hardware.

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AutoX

AutoX is defining the future of Location Based Services with our industry-leading camera-first autonomous driving technology. We are making self-driving technology reliable, affordable, and above all accessible for as many people as possible. Our world-class experts in perception, planning, and controls have already completed our first Level 4 autonomous deliveries. We will continue to lead this driverless revolution with our passion and dedication that brought us so quickly to where we are today.


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Axon

Axon’s mission is to protect life. We are committed to pushing the boundaries of technology for law enforcement and public safety. Axon AI team is working to cut the time spent on paperwork by improving the efficiency and accuracy of information analysis and report-writing in law enforcement.


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Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Tensilica DSPs provide customers with low-power, high-performance, and edge-computing processors for AI, embedded vision, audio, and communications applications in the mobile, automotive, internet of things (IoT), augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), surveillance camera, robotics, and drone markets. Tensilica DSPs play a vital role in Cadence’s overarching System Design Enablement strategy, which is to provide a comprehensive set of tools, design content, and services for the development of innovative electronic systems. Learn more at ip.cadence.com/tensilica-ip.


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CEVA

CEVA is the leading licensor of signal processing IP for a smarter, connected world. We enable power-efficient, intelligent and connected devices in mobile, consumer, automotive, industrial and IoT using IPs for vision and deep learning, audio/voice, communications and connectivity (BT 5, Wi-Fi)


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Cirrascale Cloud Services

Cirrascale Cloud Services is a premier provider of public and private dedicated, multi-GPU cloud solutions enabling deep learning. The company offers cloud-based solutions for large-scale deep learning operators, service providers, as well as HPC users. To learn more about Cirrascale and its unique dedicated, multi-GPU cloud solutions, please visit http://www.cirrascale.cloud or call 888-942-3800.


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Coupang

Coupang is one of the fastest growing e-commerce platforms in the world. Powered by world-class technology and operations, we have set out to transform the end-to-end customer experience - from revolutionizing last-mile delivery to rethinking how Customers search and discover on a truly mobile-first platform. We place our customers first and offer them the best possible prices and product selection within a highly convenient and personalized shopping environment. We have been named one of the “50 Smartest Companies in the World” by MIT Technology Review and “30 Global Game Changers” by Forbes. Coupang is a global company with offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley. As a global company we constantly look at ways to develop and enhance our international footprint.


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DroneDeploy

DroneDeploy is the leading cloud software platform for commercial drones, and is making the power of aerial data accessible and productive for everyone. Trusted by leading brands globally, DroneDeploy is transforming the way businesses leverage drones and aerial data across industries, including agriculture, construction, mining, inspection and surveying. Simple by design, DroneDeploy enables professional-grade imagery and analysis, 3D modeling and more from any drone on any device.


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Figure Eight

Figure Eight is the essential Human-in-the-Loop AI platform for data science and machine learning teams. The Figure Eight software platform trains, tests, and tunes machine learning models to make AI work in the real world. Figure Eights technology and expertise supports a wide range of data types - text, image, audio, video - and use cases including autonomous vehicles, intelligent chat bots, facial recognition, medical image labeling, aerial and satellite imagery, consumer product identification, content categorization, customer support ticket classification, social data insight, CRM data enrichment, product categorization, and search relevance. Headquartered in San Francisco with a presence in Tel Aviv and backed by Canvas Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Industry Ventures, Microsoft Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures, Figure Eight serves Fortune 500 and fast-growing data-driven organizations across a wide variety of industries. Figure Eight is also the host of Train AI the leading conference that focuses on machine learning for a human world. For more information on the company, visit www.figure-eight.com


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Hitachi, Ltd. Research and Development Group

The Research & Development Group is responsible for leading "collaborative creation" with customers. Specifically, a three prong approach is being taken: "customer-driven innovation" whereby research is conducted close to customers to identify and resolve challenges through such means as Hitachi's unique service design methodologies; "technology-driven innovation" creating innovative products through the optimal combination of technologies, and "vision-driven innovation" to pioneer new areas guided by a creative vision and through open innovation. An important platform to enable these three types of innovation to dynamically interact and promote Hitachi's Social Innovation Business, is big data. By collecting and analyzing big data from equipment and people on-site, new value can be generated by altering the components in the operation. Hitachi has abundant experience and know-how fostered over the years as a leading company in information and control technologies, as well as technology from experience in building societal infrastructure. This broad range of technologies, knowledge and experience will be leveraged to challenge issues and develop innovative solutions for a better future. Visit our booth or our website at http://www.hitachi.com/rd/index.html


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Horizon Robotics

Horizon Robotics is a leading technology powerhouse of edge Artificial Intelligence. The company is dedicated to providing integrated and open edge Artificial Intelligence solutions of high performance, low power and low cost.


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iSee AI

iSee, an MIT spin-off, is paving the way for autonomous vehicles that can deal with unfamiliar situations and complex interactions on the road. Inspired by computational cognitive science, our humanistic artificial intelligence will seamlessly integrate into society and benefit human lives.


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Jumio

Leveraging advanced technology including augmented AI, biometric facial recognition. computer vision, machine learning, and human review, Jumio helps organizations definitively establish the digital identity of its customers. Jumio has verified more than 120 million identities issued by over 200 countries from real time web and mobile transactions. Jumio’s solutions are used by leading companies in the financial services, sharing economy, cryptocurrency, retail, travel and online gaming sectors. Based in Palo Alto, Jumio operates globally with offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific and has been the recipient of numerous awards for innovation. For more information, please visit www.jumio.com.


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Korea Platform Service Technology Co., Ltd.

Korea Platform Service Technology (KPST) is a growing Information Technology (IT) company in Korea. The business solutions of KPST have been embedded emulators, authoring tools, 3D modelers, and middleware platforms since 2008. Recently, KPST is aiming to provide various image processing solutions including feature extraction, camera tracking, and image tagging. Moreover, KPST has also deep learning related technologies to support image classification and object recognition. The DEEPSDK is an open source based deep learning software tool developed by KPST. The DEEPSDK allows users to develop their image processing solutions using a lot of built-in deep learning algorithms with friendly user interfaces. The DEEPSDK integrates well-known frameworks, including Caffe, Torch, and VOC and so on. Those frameworks are abstracted with open APIs, therefore users can access the different frameworks using common APIs to train and verify their data without deep knowledge of all frameworks. The DEEPSDK also generates client codes to allow users to develop their domain-specific solutions by modifying the codes and adding their own codes. KPST collaborates with many hardware manufactures, government companies, and universities for various business solutions. For more information, please visit www.kpst.co.kr.


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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is one of the most prestigious research institutions in the world. LLNL is the go to laboratory for science and technology solutions to the toughest and most important problems affecting national and global security


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Magic Leap

Magic Leap’s mission is to harmonize people and technology to create a better, more unified world. Magic Leap is a team of creatives and technologists building a lightweight, wearable computer that seamlessly blends the digital and physical worlds. Headquartered in Plantation, Florida, with offices in Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Zurich, Wellington and Tel Aviv, learn more at www.magicleap.com.


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Mapbox

Mapbox is the location platform for developers. Mapbox provides a global map, real-time traffic, location search and navigation via our APIs and SDKs. Our services power industry leaders, including Bosch, CNN, General Electric, IBM, Instacart, Lonely Planet, Mastercard, Samsung, Snapchat, Tableau, T-Mobile USA and The Weather Channel. Mapbox is the foundation for other platforms, letting enterprises analyze their data, drone companies publish flyovers, friends find each other, real estate sites visualize properties, satellite companies process cloud-free imagery, and insurance companies track assets. Founded in 2010, Mapbox has over 300 employees globally. Learn more at mapbox.com and follow us at blog.mapbox.com.


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Ouster

Ouster is a leading provider of LIDAR and related robotics technology dedicated to bringing 3D sensing to the masses. We sell the OS-1 LIDAR which is the most capable, powerful, and affordable sensor on the market. We focus on combining advanced technologies with practical, scalable engineering, and pride ourselves on shipping products, not promises.


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PingAn Technology, US Research Lab

PingAn Group Company is listed as No. 16 on the "Forbes Global 2000" list, and No. 1 among insurance conglomerates across the world. PingAn's core strategy is a world-leading technology-powered finance and healthcare services group. PingAn is undergoing a significant "AI+" transformation. PingAn Tech, as the group's research and development arm, is establishing US research labs under this realm. The Silicon Valley Lab is focusing on deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, AI platform research, with applications to the core businesses of PingAn Group, including Smart City, Intelligent Finance and Medicine. The East Coast Lab will be heavily building AI and deep learning technologies to advance healthcare and medicine, and focusing on medical imaging, medical big data, translational clinical informatics for both precision and preventive medicine.


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Playment

Playment is a fully-managed annotation partner generating training data for computer vision models at scale. We work with pioneers in the autonomous vehicles and serve multiple domains including drones, mapping with ground truth datasets. Our platform is powered by a trained workforce of 300,000+ users and managed by our human intelligence experts who build your tasks and deliver results with assured quality. We support a wide range of annotation types including 2D and 3D bounding boxes, polygonal segmentation, polylines, key-point annotations, semantic segmentation and 3D point cloud data labelling. We work with enteprises and reseach groups in working on CV for heavy lifting the effort training data on our end so that developers and researchers can focus on their core functions of building cutting edge ML models.


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SAP SE

As market leader in corporate application software, SAP integrates machine learning technologies that empower business growth. SAP Leonardo, our digital innovation system offers a portfolio of automated applications & services that allows companies to run better, rapidly innovate and scale. By bringing machine learning, IoT, blockchain and Big Data together on the SAP cloud platform we enable the intelligent enterprise.


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Skydio

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Skydio is a self-flying robotics company from the co-founders of Google[X]’s Project Wing. The core of our system is the computer vision algorithms that allow drones to understand the world around them. This technology will ultimately enable many of the most valuable drone applications for consumers and businesses over the coming years. We’re actively looking for talented research engineers to help architect and implement the algorithms that run on every drone powered by Skydio as part of a small, world-class team of computer vision researchers who have pushed the state-of-the-art in academia and industry.


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SportLogiq

SPORTLOGiQ is an AI-powered sports analytics company transforming the way fans and teams experience the game. Founded in 2015 by an Olympic athlete and a PhD in computer vision and machine learning, we help teams win more games and broadcasters engage more viewers. We’re looking for passionate researchers and engineers to help us transform every aspect of the sports industry with machine intelligence. Visit our booth at CVPR and see our open roles at: http://sportlogiq.com/en/careers/


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Visual Computing Center at KAUST

KAUST is an international, graduate research university dedicated to advancing science and technology through interdisciplinary research, education, and innovation. Located on the shores of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia, KAUST offers superb research facilities, generous assured research funding, and internationally competitive salaries, attracting top international faculty, scientists, engineers, and students to conduct curiosity-driven and goal-oriented research to address the world’s pressing scientific and technological challenges related sustainability in energy, water, food, and the environment. The Visual Computing Center is KAUST's hub for research activities spanning all areas of visual computing, including imaging, computer vision, computer graphics, and visualization, as well as interdisciplinary applications of visual computing. The VCC is dedicated to bringing KAUST to the forefront of research in Visual Computing. The mission of the Visual Computing Center is to develop computational algorithms and tools for problems in imaging, remote sensing, urban planning, and scientific visualization.


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Vipshop US Inc.

Vipshop (US) Inc. focuses on research and advanced development of Artificial Intelligence technologies spanning the areas of machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and big data analytics. It is the US research arm of Vipshop Holdings Limited, the world’s largest Flash Sales online discount retailer of brand-named products and the third largest online retailer in China (NYSE: VIPS).


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Zoox, Inc.

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and design, Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.


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