Revolutionary New App Uses Artificial Intelligence to Automatically Send Photos to Friends

Introducing Knoto—photos that know where to go

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Knoto, an app that uses face recognition to automatically send friends
the photos they’re in, launched today in the iTunes App Store. Knoto’s
AutoSending technology enables a completely new way to privately share
photos: just take a photo of a friend, and it magically shows up on
their phone.

“Friends would always ask me for photos, but I’d always forget,” said
Jonas Lee, CEO of PhotoKharma, the company that developed Knoto. “We
realized that artificial intelligence could be used to remove all of the
friction involved in sharing photos, so we created Knoto.”

This is how Knoto works: a user downloads the app, selects the friends
to whom they want to AutoSend, and starts taking photos. When Knoto
recognizes a person that has been enabled for AutoSending, it
automatically sends them the photo. Knoto can also be set up to AutoSend
photos of one person to another—making it ideal for sending photos of
kids to their parents.

“In the photo food chain, Knoto can be an important feeder of content to
apps like Instagram,” said Lee. “When you AutoSend photos to a friend,
they’re essentially getting a real-time broadcast of photos of
themselves. From that raw, unedited stream of photos, they can pick out
the best ones to post on social media.”

Knoto was founded by its management team and Idealab, a start-up studio
that has helped launch a variety of well-known companies, including
Picasa, Overture, and CitySearch. “AutoSending is one of the most
exciting innovations in photo sharing that I’ve seen,” said Bill Gross
founder of Idealab. “It solves the biggest problem in photo
sharing—getting the right photos to the right friends at the right time.”

Converging trends

Two trends have converged to make AutoSending possible. First, recent
advances in artificial intelligence have dramatically improved the
accuracy of face recognition. Second, phones have now become most users’
primary camera.

“This wouldn’t have made sense just a few years ago, when recognition
rates ‘in the wild’ were closer to 90%,” said Dr. Erik Learned-Miller,
scientific advisor to Knoto and professor at the University of
Massachusetts in the College of Information and Computer Sciences. “But
now that they’re almost as good as humans in many conditions, it’s a
different ball game.”

Still, AutoSending photos has some risks. “There will occasionally be
recognition errors, and that can be scary for some people,” said Lee.
“We had a beta tester who was worried that one girlfriend might
accidentally get photos of another girlfriend. You can limit AutoSending
to specific friends, but Knoto still might not be right for someone with
a lot of sensitive photos.”

Under the hood

To address the technical challenges presented by AutoSending, Knoto
developed a state-of-the-art face recognition pipeline based on neural
networks, a type of artificial intelligence inspired by biological
processes. Knoto also created Distributed Collaborative Recognition, a
technology that turbo-charges accuracy by using recognition information
collected from multiple sources.

“To automatically recognize people in your new photos, we leverage image
and tagging information previously collected and organized from our
entire user base,” said Dr. Abner Guzmán-Rivera, Knoto’s CTO. “The
beauty of this approach is that as our user base grows, recognition
performance improves for everyone.”

About Knoto

Knoto is an iOS app that uses face recognition to automatically send
friends the photos they’re in. The name Knoto is a combination of
‘knowledge’ and ‘photo,’ referencing the fact that Knoto makes photos
smart enough to know where to go. Knoto was developed by PhotoKharma, a
start-up financed by Idealab,
New
York Angels
, and its management team. To learn more, visit knoto.com.

Contacts

Knoto
Jonas Lee, 347-829-2433
CEO
jonas@knoto.com
http://knoto.com/press-room/

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