Google acquires machine learning company

Google has acquired Moodstocks, a French machine learning company that develops algorithms for real-time image recognition on smartphones. The company’s employees will work in Google’s research department in Paris.

Due to the acquisition by Google, which must be completed shortly, the services of Moodstocks will stop. The company’s website only mentions the acquisition and that paying customers can continue to use the service until the end of their current contract.

Moodstocks provided an image recognition platform that can be linked by application developers. The link with Moodstocks enabled apps to recognize images in real time. An overlay with specific content and actions could then be placed on top of the images.

The difference with many other image recognition programs is that Moodstocks enabled image recognition on the device itself. To do this, it had to first have images supplied by the users themselves as reference images.

Moodstocks’ software was available for iOS 5 and above, and Android 2.3 and above. The first version appeared in 2012.