Otávio Good is a Brazilian and
American computer programmer
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and
inventor
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. He is the original author of
Word Lens
Word Lens was an augmented reality translation application from Quest Visual. Word Lens used the built-in cameras on smartphones and similar devices to quickly scan and identify foreign text (such as that found in a sign or a menu), and then tra ...
, the first
augmented reality
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translation application that replaces printed text into the desired language in video without connection to the Internet.
Because of its potential impact on
international travel
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, Word Lens received significant amount of attention
following its release on December 16, 2010,
including ''
Wired
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The Economist
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CNN
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The Wall Street Journal
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and ''
MIT
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Technology Review
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''.
To develop
Word Lens
Word Lens was an augmented reality translation application from Quest Visual. Word Lens used the built-in cameras on smartphones and similar devices to quickly scan and identify foreign text (such as that found in a sign or a menu), and then tra ...
, Otávio Good founded
Quest Visual Inc., which was acquired by
Google, Inc. in 2014,
leading to the incorporation of the Word Lens feature into the
Google Translate
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app in 2015.
While at Google, Good became a spokesperson for
machine learning
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efforts, explaining how it is possible to "squeeze" a high-quality
convolutional neural network
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into a
smartphone
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, and why machine learning is the "next underlying technology". Word Lens feature was expanded from 7 to 27 languages of the
Google Translate
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app in 2015, and then to both simplified and traditional Chinese in 2016.
Prior to Word Lens, Good was a video game developer and co-founded
Secret Level, Inc., which was acquired by
Sega Inc. in 2006 and became
Sega Studios San Francisco
Sega Studios San Francisco, formerly known as Secret Level, Inc., was an American video game developer based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in December 1999 by Jeremy Gordon, Otavio Good, and Josh Adams.
History
Before being purch ...
.
In 2011, Otávio Good led the team ''All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S.'' that won the
DARPA Shredder Challenge 2011.
Good was awarded the 2011 World Technology Award in the category ''IT-Software (Individual)'' presented at the
United Nations
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headquarters
and the Netexplo award in the category ''Innovation & Technology'' presented at the
UNESCO
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headquarters.
for creation of Word Lens.
Career
* Co-founder of
Secret Level, Inc. (1999–2006)
* Software architect at
Sega Studios San Francisco
Sega Studios San Francisco, formerly known as Secret Level, Inc., was an American video game developer based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in December 1999 by Jeremy Gordon, Otavio Good, and Josh Adams.
History
Before being purch ...
(2006–2009)
* Founder of
Quest Visual (2009–2014)
*
Google Translate
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engineer (2014–2018)
See also
*
Word Lens
Word Lens was an augmented reality translation application from Quest Visual. Word Lens used the built-in cameras on smartphones and similar devices to quickly scan and identify foreign text (such as that found in a sign or a menu), and then tra ...
*
Google Translate
Google Translate is a multilingualism, multilingual neural machine translation, neural machine translation service developed by Google to translation, translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a web applic ...
*
Google
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*
Quest Visual
*
Sega Studios San Francisco
Sega Studios San Francisco, formerly known as Secret Level, Inc., was an American video game developer based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in December 1999 by Jeremy Gordon, Otavio Good, and Josh Adams.
History
Before being purch ...
*
Machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...
References
External links
Quest Visual homepage
* Word Len
on iTunes* Otávio Goo
explainsWord Lens
*
Building 43 journalist
Robert Scoble
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interviews Otávio Good about Word Lens
* Google Translate vs. "La Bamba
demoof the Word Lens feature
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American technology chief executives
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Google employees