kooaba research is currently attending the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in Barcelona. There, we offer a new service using our image recognition: Typically, scientists present their work during a so called poster session, that is, each author of a scientific paper resumes and presents his results on a poster and visitors can discuss directly the presented work.

kooaba now renders these posters interactive using Deja Vu and Paperboy. We asked the poster authors to upload their poster as well as additional content such as source code, links, videos and the corresponding scientific paper. Then, the visitors can simply access this content using their smartphone. Additionally, they can share this and save the paper in order to remember it and store it in their paper library on Mendeley. Mendeley is a popular “social” citation and paper management tool for scientists (and we admit: the PhDs in our team are huge fans of Mendeley). The connection between kooaba and Mendeley now allows the conference visitor to add works of interest directly to his literature collection.

A perfect use case for our applications!

After one day at the conference, we can already say this is a great success! We can se quite some queries coming in and people using it all over the conference.

Besides that, kooaba also got a great visibility here! But I keep on wondering: Who are those guys on the left and the right of kooaba?