How Machine Learning Can Teach Your iPhone To "See"

Now Warden's tackling a new challenge: teaching smartphones (and cameras in general) how to recognize objects. Back in April, Warden released a software development kit called DeepBeliefSDK on GitHub. Designed for developers to integrate machine vision into smartphone apps, DeepBelief is currently available for Android, iOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi. While DeepBelief is just one in a number of early entrants into the somewhat creepy world of deep learning for mobile devices, it has one advantage over competitors. It's blazing fast–Warden says Deep Belief can identify objects in under 300 milliseconds on an iPhone 5S, while using less than 20 megabytes of memory.