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Women’s apparel retailer Jessica London has found a way to make its print catalog an interactive product showcase with the addition of image recognition technology to its iPhone mobile commerce app.

From within the app, a consumer selects the camera icon in the navigation bar and lines up the lens with the catalog image. A tap of the camera shutter button sends the image to a database where it is matched to one of more than 500 products. The image recognition technology converts the visual image into a digital code that is sent to a database for matching, explains Yanna Sigenlaub, vice president of marketing at LTU Technologies, the company behind the image recognition system. Jessica London routinely updates the database, adding new images as they are available.

Jessica London®, a plus size women’s fashion brand in the portfolio of Redcats USA’s OneStopPlus Group, announced today that it is the first US apparel brand to feature image recognition technology on its iPhone app. This new enhancement allows customers to snap a photo of any product in the Jessica London® Catalog and instantly shop the outfit/item. Even better, the app is FREE and available for download by simply searching for Jessica London® in the App Store!

Over 80 developers visited the Times Building on Saturday for TimesOpen: Hack Day. They were joined a couple dozen developers from The New York Times. The combined crowd occupied every available seat in the conference facility on the 15th floor. Practically everybody was there to program, and they all brought their coding chops and their creativity.

Congrats to LTU team - Platon, Sam, Adam and Pierre - for winning ‘best use of NYTimes API’ this saturday at the TimesOpen Hack Day with flixlinQ.

flixlinQ lets users take a pic of a movie poster to get linked to NYTimes movie review, ratings, and recent tweets.

Congrats to winner of the hackathon; Huey Huelsbeck from Smack Dab Studios in Savannah. Huelsbeck’s “Huey Kablooey” mobile app uses image recognition to links with the Huey Kablooey comic strip website. (powered by LTU's pixlinQ mobile visual search.

Users can snap a picture of an object with their smartphone, and the app will find a Huey Kablooey comic strip that corresponds with the object.

Mobile shopping based on a printed catalogue

With the help of pixlinQ you can snap a photo of an outfit in a catalogue or advertisement with your phone, which will then track down the clothes of your choice on the company website and enable you to make your purchase online.

Q: How can you make a connection between goods advertised in a catalogue and internet shopping?
A: By using image recognition. LTU Technologies has developed pixlinQ, a module that enables you to integrate image recognition functions into any mobile application. So when you take a photo, the software identifies shapes and shades of colour and then, by tapping into a specific database, helps you to find the article you want in a brand catalogue. There are numerous possibilities. All you have to do is take a photo of a page - in the La Redoute printed catalogue for instance - using a dedicated app running with pixlinQ, and you’ll be automatically directed to the item you’re interested in on the vendor’s website and so able to place your order directly online.

An advance in the approach to online shopping…

Not sure what you’re looking at? Just ask your smart phone! This is the world we are living in: snapshot digital identification brought to you by artificial intelligence algorithms. LTU, a player in the image recognition game since 1999, is opening up to developers its image recognition and search API dubbed LTU Engine/ON Demand.

All of a sudden after four years of trying and failing mobile visual search is making a come back. Here are two new apps that have got my attention.

Collectrium and Shopgate: two new diverse pixlinQ customers

The Collectrium application (www.collectrium.com ) allows visitors to galleries and art fairs to retrieve more information about a piece of art simply by taking a picture. Users can then add notes, bookmark for later reference, share with a friend and contact the artist or representative for more information. The application is used by hundreds of art fairs and galleries all over the world and has helped tens of thousands of art lovers learn about and track their favorite art.

Audio interview with LTU co-founder and CEO Alex Winter about the value of pixlinQ mobile visual search to advertisers and why mobile visual search is such an exciting space today.

Search is taking another step forward, inching ever closer to stuff of science fiction. Today LTU technologies announced pixlinQ. The mobile visual search platform enables advertisers to link printed ad material to digital content using a mobile device without having to add QR or 2D codes.