An object is recognized from image data as a target object and linked to a user based on an interaction by the user, information about the target object is obtained and a purchase of the target object is initiated.

In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for rendering virtual environments is disclosed. The method includes associating by a computing system, an object with a container effect, by receiving information regarding an object category for the object and matching the object category to a category associated with the container effect, where the container effect defines virtual effects for objects associated therewith. The method also includes generating by the computing system a virtual environment including the object by retrieving a model of the object an utilizing the model and the container effect to render a virtual object.

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately and flexibly identifying digital images with similar style to a query digital image using fine-grain style determination via weakly supervised style extraction neural networks. For example, the disclosed systems can extract a style embedding from a query digital image using a style extraction neural network such as a novel two-branch autoencoder architecture or a weakly supervised discriminative neural network. The disclosed systems can generate a combined style embedding by combining complementary style embeddings from different style extraction neural networks. Moreover, the disclosed systems can search a repository of digital images to identify digital images with similar style to the query digital image. The disclosed systems can also learn parameters for one or more style extraction neural network through weakly supervised training without a specifically labeled style ontology for sample digital images.

A contextual local image recognition module of a device retrieves a primary content dataset from a server and then generates and updates a contextual content dataset based on an image captured with the device. The device stores the primary content dataset and the contextual content dataset. The primary content dataset comprises a first set of images and corresponding virtual object models. The contextual content dataset comprises a second set of images and corresponding virtual object models retrieved from the server.

Apparatuses and methods associated with authenticated production are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a digital fingerprint processor may be configured to: identify an activation of at least one of the one or more machines to attempt to produce or manufacture at least one of physical product or physical manufacture; responsive to completion of one or more operations associated with the activation by the one or more machines, acquire digital image data of a portion of a physical object on or inside the one or more machines; analyze the digital image data to form a digital fingerprint of the physical object, wherein the digital fingerprint is responsive to structure of the physical object; and store the digital fingerprint in a database record of the database system. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.

A system for authenticating digital contents includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. According to one implementation, the hardware processor executes the software code to receive digital content, identify an image of a person depicted in the digital content, determine an ear shape parameter of the person depicted in the image, determine another biometric parameter of the person depicted in the image, and calculate a ratio of the ear shape parameter of the person depicted in the image to the biometric parameter of the person depicted in the image. The hardware processor is also configured to execute the software code to perform a comparison of the calculated ratio with a predetermined value, and determine whether the person depicted in the image is an authentic depiction of the person based on the comparison of the calculated ratio with the predetermined value.

An image retrieval apparatus includes a processor, and the processor performs a process including: determining an image in which a first characteristic object is included in a subject to be a first image, and determining an image that is captured after the first image and in which a second characteristic object is included in the subject to be a second image, from among a series of captured images; specifying images as an image group, the images being captured during a period after the first image is captured before the second image is captured from among the series of captured images; and extracting a representative image from the image group.

A method for controlling a near field communication between a device and a transaction card is disclosed. The method includes the steps of capturing, by a front-facing camera of the device, a series of images of the transaction card and processing each image of the series of images to identify a darkness level associated with a distance of the transaction card from the front of the device. The method includes comparing each identified darkness level to a predetermined darkness level associated with a preferred distance for a near field communication read operation and automatically triggering a near field communication read operation between the device and the transaction card for the communication of a cryptogram from an applet of the transaction card to the device in response to the identified darkness level corresponding to the predetermined darkness level associated with the preferred distance for the near field communication read operation.

Systems and methods provided for presenting supplemental content in an augmented reality environment where an object within a field of view of an augmented reality device of a user is identified and processed to detect a reference related to a participant in an event. A user profile or user social network is searched to identify a message from the user about the participant. The message may be combined with the object in the augmented reality field of view.

A method includes receiving, from an image capture device in communication with the data processing hardware, image data for an area of interest of a user. The method also includes receiving a query from the user referring to one or more objects detected within the image data and requesting a digital assistant to discern insights associated with the one or more objects referred to by the query. The method also includes processing the query and the image data to: identify, based on context data extracted from the image data, the one or more objects referred to by the query; and determine the insights associated with the identified one or more objects for the digital assistant to discern. The method also includes generating, for output from a user device associated with the user, content indicating the discerned insights associated with the identified one or more objects.