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13 projects

SafeWalkr

SafeWalkr is an independent, free tool that maps the safest (not just shortest) walking route to school for every Fairfax County public school, using Street View imagery, sidewalk inventories, and traffic data.

Fairfax, VA
2026

Be My AI™

Be My AI™ brings state-of-the-art visual descriptions to people who are blind or have low vision. It’s powerful, practical, and designed to make accessibility simple.

Åbogade 15, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark
blind

Lookout - Assisted vision

Lookout uses computer vision to assist people with low vision or blindness get things done faster and more easily.

Mountain View, CA, USA
2024
blind, Android, apps

Street Activity Sensors

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

New York City
2020
mobility, city, streetscape, Sustainable cities and communities

Greyparrot

Unlock the power of AI waste analytics

London
waste

Ocean Artificial Intelligence

Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.

Rhode Island
Life below water

Vframe

VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers

2018
human rights

InVID Verification Plugin

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

Europe
extensions

Brandwatch Consumer Research

Get consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.

48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010, USA
commercial