IQ Engines Authentication Debug Tool

Use it to quickly verify that your api signatures are correct. No need to go through us to get this information. Of course, if you still want to say “Hi” don’t hesitate to send an email .

Our technology improves with use, the more users and applications using our APIs, the better the experience for everyone involved (customers and consumers). Our motivation is to have as much meaningful code published to GitHub as possible to enable in the rapid development and deployment of visual search applications based on our APIs.  On that note, a big thanks to Big Nerds in Disguise and Robots on Pencils for their posts on github (http://github.com/appempire/IQEngines/).  If you have code that you’d like to contribute feel free to post it and drop us a note (http://support.iqengines.com/home).

At the same time, we’ve topped off our war chest with new equity investments and grants totaling over $1.3 million. First, we recently announced a $1 million Series A investment. Next, due to our unique neuroscience-inspired approach to image recognition, IQ Engines was awarded a $119,000 research grant from the National Institutes of Health to further develop accessibility features that assist the visually impaired. In addition, due to our superior technology, we also received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to advance the development of our 3D object representations for visual search.

This additional capital will be used to further develop our customer base of global retailers, handset manufacturers, and mobile service providers, not to mention scores of small mobile application developers who are currently putting our technology to work in their apps. Our recently-launched developer portal provides easy access to our API, query tools, and free queries to test your applications. In the coming months, we’ll also be adding a new categorization engine, which will further our ability to identify and label any image.

In addition to raising capital, IQ Engines added former Apple Inc. executive David Austin to our board of directors. David brings significant expertise in designing, developing and delivering elegant and intuitive software. Through his 17 years at Apple, David managed the development of several technology frameworks and product families, and his extensive experience in delivering user-friendly and feature-rich software will be very helpful as we add more functionality to our any-image recognition engine and its public API. We’re thrilled to have David on the team!

In the past, we’ve made our image recognition API available to select customers.  Today, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve opened up the API on the web at http://developer.iqengines.com.  Now, any developer can use IQ Engines’ image recognition engine to integrate visual search into their mobile or web application.  It’s fast and easy to get up and running, and we think you’ll be amazed at what it can do — our unique approach allows us to recognize any image you can think of.

Check it out at http://developer.iqengines.com, let us know what kinds of awesome applications you’re going to develop, and please share your feedback so we can make it work even better for you.

If you have any questions or special requests, don’t hesitate to contact Andrew at andrew [at] iqengines [dot] com.

Many of our activation emails have been caught in spam filters from various internet service providers such as Comcast, AOL, and ATT and aren’t reaching their intended recipients. We’re actively working with these service providers to resolve this issue, and new activations should go through without a hitch. For those of you who signed up before today, we’ve manually activated your account. You can now launch oMoby on your iPhone and start using it immediately.

For new users, if for some reason you don’t get your activation email, let us know here. We’ll try resending your registration email, and if that doesn’t work, we can activate your account manually.

Thanks for your understanding!

As a company, it’s extremely exciting to see our image recognition technology gain traction with outside customers. Today, we received word that our app is featured on the frontpage of  Apple Itunes! The feedback all of you have been providing so far has been extremely helpful. Keep it coming! We’re looking forward to hearing more about how you use visual search in your daily lives.