Appu Shaji

Appu Shaji is the Head of Research and Development at EyeEm, where he leads a team working to index the world’s photographs. Appu co-founded sight.io, where he and his team developed technology to rate images based on computational aesthetics. Sight.io was acquired by EyeEm in 2014. Prior to that, Appu was a post-doctoral researcher in the Image and Visual Representation Group and Computer Vision Lab, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He received a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay.
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Posts by Appu Shaji

Technical Walkthrough 0 Mar 29, 2017

Personalized Aesthetics: Recording the Visual Mind using Machine Learning

Visual aesthetics are very personal, often subconscious, and hard to express.  In a world with an overload of photographic content, a lot of time and effort... 16 MIN READ
Technical Walkthrough 0 Feb 29, 2016

Understanding Aesthetics with Deep Learning

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. — Henri larartier Bresson As a child I... 15 MIN READ