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« on: July 08, 2016, 04:05:15 pm »

Microsoft’s new iOS app can bring your toy car collection online

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<p>One of the tough things about having an awesome collection of physical objects is that it can be difficult to share them with people far away. After all, what good is having a collection of dolls action figures taking over your house if you can’t foist them on someone halfway across the globe?</p><p>That’s a problem that Microsoft Research Cambridge is trying to solve with the private beta of a new iOS app called Thinga.Me. It’s an app that lets users clip objects out of digital photos and then arrange them on virtual shelves for easy sharing online. </p><p>The company has a few examples of how it works already, showing off different collections of figurines, family photos, bottles of beers and pottery on the Thinga.Me website. It’s all powered by computer vision technology that Microsoft Research has built to separate individual objects from the background of photos called GrabCut.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3092275/apps/microsofts-new-app-can-bring-your-toy-car-collection-online.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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