Matroid can watch videos and detect anything within them

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth that times the frame rate. Matroid, a computer vision startup launching out of stealth today, enables anyone to take advantage of the information inherently embedded in video. You can build your own detector within the company's intuitive, non-technical, web platform to detect people and most other objects. Reza Zadeh, founder of Matroid, is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford who has toiled with the idea of a startup for the last decade -- just now jumping in the ring to catch the wave of democratization in the computer vision space. Matroid's comfort zone is picking out specified objects from video, rather than extracting insights from satellite or medical imagery. Instead of whipping out TensorFlow or Google Cloud's new Video Intelligence API, users simply upload a custom training set or choose from a curated library of hundreds of millions of images to establish their detector.