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Snapfish Lab
Snapfish Lab was a web portal and application framework that HP Labs provided to showcase some of its imaging research, and to solicit feedback from users and the imaging research community. Overview The site contained a series of new experimental imaging tools. A set of sample photographs allowed the user to try the tools without registering. If users logged on with their Snapfish user credentials they could use the tools on their own photograph collections. A discussion forum allowed users to give feedback on their experience. Company Structure Snapfish Lab was a service of HP Labs, the research and advanced development division of Hewlett-Packard. Imaging Tools The experimental imaging tools provided by the site were: * ''Poster Creator'' allowed users to combine multiple photographs into a single large sheet of paper. An automatic algorithm, Blocked Recursive Image Composition, automatically arranged the photographs. The user could choose between alternate automatic l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company. It was founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 in a one-car garage in Palo Alto, California, where the company would remain headquartered for the remainder of its lifetime; this HP Garage is now a designated landmark and marked with a plaque calling it the "Birthplace of 'Silicon Valley. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components, as well as software and related services, to consumers, small and medium-sized businesses (small and medium-sized enterprises, SMBs), and fairly large companies, including customers in government sectors, until the company officially split into Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. in 2015. HP initially produced a line of electronic test and measurement equipment. It won its first big contract in 1938 to provide the HP 200B, a variation of its first product, the HP 200A low-distor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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HP Labs
HP Labs is the exploratory and advanced research group for HP Inc. HP Labs' headquarters is in Palo Alto, California and the group has research and development facilities in Bristol, UK. The development of programmable desktop calculators, inkjet printing, and 3D graphics are credited to HP Labs researchers. HP Labs was established on March 3, 1966, by Hewlett-Packard founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard, seeking to create an organization not bound by day-to-day business concerns. The labs have downsized dramatically; in August 2007, HP executives drastically diminished the number of projects, down from 150 to 30. As of 2018, HP Labs has just over 200 researchers, compared to earlier staffing levels of 500 researchers. With Hewlett Packard Enterprise being spun off from Hewlett-Packard on November 1, 2015, and the remaining company being renamed to HP Inc., the research lab also spun off Hewlett Packard Labs to Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Labs was kept for HP Inc. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Snapfish
Snapfish is a web-based photo sharing and photo printing service owned by Shutterfly headquartered in San Jose, California. It was launched in 1999 by Rajil Kapoor, Bala Parthasarathy, Suneet Wadhwa, and Shripati Acharya. History Snapfish was launched in 1999 by business partners Rajil Kapoor, Bala Parthasarathy, Suneet Wadhwa, and Shripati Acharya. Ben Nelson joined soon thereafter as corporate development operations lead, to become CFO and later president and CEO. On October 30, 2001, the service was acquired by Beltsville, Maryland-based digital imaging services company District Photo for an undisclosed amount. In 2004, Snapfish opened a physical retail concept store in Alexandria, Virginia, but later closed it. The next year, Snapfish was bought by Hewlett-Packard for $300 million while Nelson was CEO, even though the service's revenue at the time was less than $100 million. Nelson continued to run the company as an HP subsidiary. During this time, Snapfish partnere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Watershed (algorithm)
In the study of image processing, a watershed is a transformation defined on a grayscale image. The name refers metaphorically to a geological ''watershed'', or drainage divide, which separates adjacent drainage basins. The watershed transformation treats the image it operates upon like a topographic map, with the brightness of each point representing its height, and finds the lines that run along the tops of ridges. There are different technical definitions of a watershed. In graphs, watershed lines may be defined on the nodes, on the edges, or hybrid lines on both nodes and edges. Watersheds may also be defined in the continuous domain. There are also many different algorithms to compute watersheds. Watershed algorithms are used in image processing primarily for object segmentation purposes, that is, for separating different objects in an image. This allows for counting the objects or for further analysis of the separated objects. Image:Relief of gradient of heart MRI.png, Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Google Labs
Google Labs is an incubator created by Google to test and publicly demonstrate new projects. The original version was online from early 2002 to mid-2011. Google described Labs as "a playground where our more adventurous users can play around with prototypes of some of our wild and crazy ideas and offer feedback directly to the engineers who developed them." In 2023, Google revived Labs at the annual Google I/O keynote. History Google also used an invitation-only model for users to test Labs products including Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Wave, and many of these also have their own "Labs" experimental features and previews. Labs was later removed from Google Calendar. In 2006, all Google Labs products were presented with a consistent icon, a flask, and a gray title, as opposed to other color-coded Google products, such as Google News and Google Maps Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Yahoo! Next
Yahoo!, once one of the most popular web sites in the United States, is as of September 2021 a content sub-division of the namesake company Yahoo Inc., owned by Apollo Global Management (90%) and Verizon Communications (10%). It has offered a wide range of online sites and services since its inception in 1994, a majority of which are now defunct. Current Yahoo! services Yahoo offers a multi-lingual interface available in over 20 languages. Yahoo! Japan is a separate entity, controlled by SoftBank. Yahoo!Xtra, launched in 2007 in New Zealand is owned by Yahoo!7, a joint venture between Yahoo! and the Seven Network. * Yahoo! home page * My Yahoo! – Enables users to combine their favorite Yahoo features, content feeds, and information onto a single page. * oneSearch * Rivals.com * Yahoo! Auctions – discontinued in 2007 except for Taiwan and Japan. * Yahoo! Developer Network * Yahoo! Entertainment (also branded Y! Entertainment) * Yahoo! Finance * Yahoo! Life – formerly kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Beta Software
The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system). It typically consists of several stages, such as pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and release candidate, before the final version, or "gold", is released to the public. Pre-alpha refers to the early stages of development, when the software is still being designed and built. Alpha testing is the first phase of formal testing, during which the software is tested internally using white-box techniques. Beta testing is the next phase, in which the software is tested by a larger group of users, typically outside of the organization that developed it. The beta phase is focused on reducing impacts on users and may include usability testing. After beta testing, the software may go through one or more release candidate phases, in which it is refined and tested further, before the final version is released. Some software, particularly in the internet and technolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |