R&D – Jaunt

Introducing our 3D Human Pose Annotation Tool

Andrew Walkingshaw — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 19:04:47 +0000

Posted by: Andrew Walkingshaw, Principal Data Scientist/Software Engineer, Adam Gaige, Head of Engineering and Charles Le Pere, Director of Program Management As we wrote about previously, Jaunt is in the business of human understanding. We design and train neural networks for human pose estimation and body part segmentation—identifying key joints and labelling pixels in images ... Read more

Using Machine Learning to Understand People

Andrew Walkingshaw — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 17:34:14 +0000

Posted by Andrew Walkingshaw, Principal Data Scientist/Software Engineer and Simon Venshtain, Head of Research Cameras on mobile phones let us capture special moments in our lives at a quality, richness and depth which was unimaginable even fifteen years ago. Whether it’s your child’s first steps, a family portrait or a long-planned vacation, you (and your ... Read more

The Jaunt Internship Program

Jaunt XR — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:42:01 +0000

Floris Weers (third from the left) is in his final year of study toward a Bachelor’s Degree in Technical Computer Science at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Left to right: Arthur van Hoff (Jaunt CTO & Founder) and the 2018 San Mateo interns: Varun Dinghra, Floris Weers, Apoorva Ramesh, Aleksander Antic, Abhishek Pandey, Skyler Hektner, Nick Sundermeyer, Tejas Sakhardande By Floris...

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Hacking Reality: The 3rd Annual Jaunt Hackathon

Jaunt XR — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 18:50:34 +0000

Arthur van Hoff (left) and Tony Fadell (right) at the 2018 Jaunt Hackathon By Arthur van Hoff, CTO & Founder Every summer, Jaunt organizes a company-wide Hackathon. It is a fun event designed to stimulate creativity and team building. Everyone at Jaunt is encouraged to participate, with engineers, studio team members, IT, HR, sales, marketing, ... Read more

Research and Development at Jaunt: Imaging Technology

Jaunt XR — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:44:30 +0000

Solmaz Hajmohammadi, Senior Software Engineer, PhD, Michigan Technological University — background in Image Processing, GPU Computing and Computer Vision. Jaunt’s story began with building 360° cameras, from only a single GoPro and a few Legos. From this, the award-winning Jaunt ONE was created. Since then, we have shifted our focus to software based solutions and new products, including ... Read more

Research and Development at Jaunt: Volumetric Content

Jaunt XR — Fri, 25 May 2018 19:13:01 +0000

Matthew Hu, Sr. Research Engineer, MSc Stanford University — is working on problems related to computer vision and imaging. Capturing accurate volumetric content can be a difficult and expensive proposition due to the massive amount of data needed. However, with the availability of lower cost depth and time-of-flight sensors, and the ever-increasing compute power of GPUs, we at ... Read more

Research and Development at Jaunt: Computational Geometry

Jaunt XR — Fri, 04 May 2018 23:44:31 +0000

Daniel Kopeinigg, Director of Research, PhD Stanford University — worked on imaging related problems for more than a decade; Background in Computer Vision and Computational Imaging including medical imaging and inverse problems. Mathematical modeling & optimization and machine learning. Jaunt’s core technology stack is driven by Computational Photography and Computer Vision. We have developed patented technology around ... Read more

Research and Development at Jaunt: Machine Learning

Jaunt XR — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 21:26:50 +0000

Andrew Walkingshaw, Chief Data Scientist, PhD Cambridge — engineer, product designer, entrepreneur around machine learning and large-scale data in startups and academia, and before that a computational mineral physicist. Machine learning — particularly in the form of deep convolutional neural networks — is now unquestionably one of the most powerful techniques available to us as software engineers. Within the last decade, ... Read more

Research and Development at Jaunt: Augmented Reality

Jaunt XR — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:29:50 +0000

Charles Le Pere, Sr. Program Manager, MSc University of Southern California — has been designing and building camera systems for over 18 years for a vast array of customers and applications including: sensors for the Mars Rovers, night vision cameras for drones and large aircraft, iPhone & iPad cameras including the FaceID sensors for Apple. His background ... Read more

Research and Development at Jaunt

Jaunt XR — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 22:42:08 +0000

Arthur van Hoff, CTO and Founder of Jaunt, MPhil Strathclyde University — Serial entrepreneur, Java contributor, with a background in Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, Parallel Computing, and Compiler Design. Jaunt was founded in 2013, right when the first Oculus Rift DK1 was released. Upon gaining access to the headset we immediately saw the potential for what could be ... Read more