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April 29-30, 2018: Training
April 30-May 2, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Mike Ranzinger

Mike Ranzinger
Senior Research Engineer, Shutterstock

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Mike Ranzinger is a senior research engineer at Shutterstock, where he and a team of researchers and engineers have invented a number of AI search technologies and collaborated on multiple patent filings. Previously, Mike held a variety of software developer roles at New Century Software, Boulder Imaging, and AlchemyAPI (acquired by IBM Watson), where he spearheaded a natural scene optical character recognition (OCR) project that provided an API to extract text from images and was a member of the larger machine vision group that launched the industry’s first commercial image tagging and similarity API. Mike first became enamored with ray tracers and machine vision while studying at Colorado State University. Mike is passionate about cycling and spends most of his free time training for races as a new domestic pro. He holds a BS in computer science from Colorado State University.

Sessions

4:00pm–4:40pm Wednesday, May 2, 2018
The quest for a new visual search beyond language
Models and Methods
 Location: Grand Ballroom West
Mike Ranzinger (Shutterstock)
Mike Ranzinger shares his research on composition-aware search and explains how the research led to the launch of AI technology that allows Shutterstock’s users to more precisely find the image they need within the company's collection of more than 150 million images. Read more.