Making the internet more accessible

Using machine learning to make every image of the internet accessible to the visually impaired.

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The Internet Is Broken

There are 32 million people with visual impairments. Many rely on a Screen Reader to browse the internet.

Screen Readers need alt-tags to provide a caption for images. However, for the majority of photos on the internet they are missing.

Imagine not being able to tell who's in photo or what the text says.

All user uploaded content is inaccessible.

Saqib Shaikh a software engineer at Microsoft, wearing the SeeingAI glasses with the text saying 'For me, it's about taking that far-off dream
an unaccessible image on twitter. The photo shows Satya Nadella retweeting a photo by Microsoft Research.

The Solution

Machine learning enables us to generate captions for every image on the internet.

We generate:

  • What is in the photo
  • What the text says
  • Who is in the photo
  • What their facial expressions are

Regardless of device.

If you are interested in trying our product then please register your interest here.

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News

VisualCognition Study

Pilot Study Announced

We proud to announce that we will be shortly launching our pilot study. If you would like to be notified when open applications please register your interest here.

The VisualCognition team collecting the Microsoft Prize at HackCambridge

Winner of Microsoft Prize!

VisualCognition are honoured to win the Microsoft Prize at the University of Cambridge's Hackathon. We look forward to continuing building on the Microsoft Cogntive Services Platform to deliver VisualCognition.

Our Team

With experience in Medicine, Engineering, and Machine Learning we are committed to making the internet more accessible.

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Luke Harries

Medicine
University of Cambridge

MSc Computer Science
UCL

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Filip Korzera

Information Engineering
University of Cambridge

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Mateusz Staniszewski

Mathematics
Imperial College London

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Marcin Kolaszewski

Maths and Computer Science
Brown University

We want to make the internet work for everyone.

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