Nominated as one of the world’s 100 best start-ups by Red Herring in January 2010, the company has just signed a contract to install its face recognition software in computers produced by the Brazilian company Semp Toshiba.

Based in Salvador de Bahia, Semp Toshiba manufactures Toshiba electronic equipment under licence in Brazil, offering a very wide range of products, including laptops. Keen to stand out from its competitors, Semp Toshiba is relying on KeyLemon’s face recognition software to give its clients easy, user-friendly access to their computers. The software enables users whose computers have a webcam to access their Windows session or their applications without having to enter a password. All they have to do is sit in front of their computer and it will recognise their face.

“We’ve had a huge success with our software on the Internet, which has been downloaded by over 800,000 users in just over a year”, says Gilles Florey, CEO and joint founder of KeyLemon. The agreement with Semp Toshiba is actually an OEM licence that enables the Brazilian company to integrate the KeyLemon software into all the computers it produces. It’s the culmination of a lengthy negotiation process that began in January and ended with the signature of the agreement in early August. “This is a very important agreement for us because it gives us tremendous credibility in a very competitive market. It acknowledges not only of the quality of our work, but also the expertise of our technology partner, the Idiap Research Institute, which developed the face recognition algorithms on which our software is based”, adds the youthful company director.

We at KeyLemon are very proud of this tournament. Many fans have played the game and we reached in total more than 15’000 themes downloads. You can still download the theme of your favorite country. Just go under our Theme Gallery and follow the instructions. We even offer the possibility to build your own theme and to share it with the KeyLemon Community. Have a look.

Next world cup, 2014 in Brazil…

It started with the announcement of Microsoft new operating system Windows 8. According to some blog post, Micrsosoft gave us a first glimpse of what we can expect to see in the new operating system Windows 8. Microsoft calls the technology My PC Knows Me and it basically means that the PC can use a connected camera to recognize a user and act depending on the user’s position in the room. Microsoft plans to improve sensors in Windows 8 mainly based on face recognition technology.

Facial recognition will be used to switch PC users quickly. The key features are: Proximity detection, facial detection, Rapid “on”, User authentication and login, fast and easy user switching, desktop lock using face detection and proximity detection, fast switch to sleep mode.

We at KeyLemon are proud that we have develop such solution and are propsing it to our customers http://www.keylemon.com/product/

Then, I just have heart that Facebook acquired a technology for event tagging in photos. According to some blog post, the two team members headed to Facebook will work on tying Facebook photos to events so that all photos uploaded from the same event can be associated together via event tagging. The technology allows resizing and face recognition of photos.

It is good to hear that face recognition technology gets more visibility in the market.

KeyLemon Version 2.3.1 comes with a themes manager. You can customize the windows interface of LemonLogin and LemonScreen. As we are exciting about the World Cup, we have prepared a theme interface for each team. We are going to count the number of days you are using your team’s theme. By the end of the group round, we will freeze the score. The best two teams of each group will get to the next round. Then, the score will be reset for the new round and the count starts again for the team that qualified. On June 30th, the winner will be selected to the quarter final and so on until to the final. Here is the link http://www.keylemon.com/themes-world-cup-2010/

You can update to KeyLemon version 2.3.1 through the Control Center by clicking on “check for update now” (if updater does not start automatically, read the FAQ). The new version offers additional improvements such as :

a) New themes version (compatible with KeyLemon’s World Cup Game)

b) Bug corrections

See release notes and user guide on website.

So all what you have to do is to share with your friends and win the KeyLemon World Cup. Find all information on http://www.keylemon.com/themes-world-cup-2010/

Good luck to everybody!

The new version offers a themes manager. Yes, you are right. You can manage your own windows locking or / and login screen. You can even create your own theme and offering to KeyLemon’s community. Currently, the theme „Blue Sky“ with 128 Downloads is leading. If you have great ideas and would like to share it with us, click on the link “Build your own Theme” and submit your own proposition.

CHIP Online is the German leading media company for the Internet and consumer advice. Regularly, Chip.de tests new software, provides reports of the program and compare products for its customer. KeyLemon was reviewed by the experts of Chip.de and reached rank 6 of the Top Windows Software downloads. More than 70% of the chip.de community evaluated the software as good quality. KeyLemon on Chip.de

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Features

“In pattern recognition, features are the individual measurable heuristic properties of the phenomena being observed. Choosing discriminating and independent features is key to any pattern recognition algorithm being successful in classification. Features are usually numeric, but structural features such as strings and graphs are used in syntactic pattern recognition.” (Wikipedia)

Classifiers

“A classifier is a sort of a function that provides a tagged class as an output from a set of attributes taken as inputs. A way to build a classifier is to take a set of tagged examples and try to define a rule that could assign a tag to any other kind of input data.” (Wikipedia)

In the next posts, I will provide practical cases for “Features” and “Classifiers”. Stay tuned !

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Since November 2008 we are partnering with Microsoft. Our first project was based on developing Login solution for Windows XP and Vista. As we needed detailed information about the operating system we were really lucky that Microsoft supported us. Thanks to their help and support we could release a stable commercial version of KeyLemon. However, the collaboration between Microsoft and KeyLemon was not just at the development side. We also work together on different projects which take much more time. However, it is a real pleasur to collaborate with Microsoft and being selected as the startup of the day it is somehow a reward of the good quality of collaboration. Thank for nominating KeyLemon…

Find an interview of Gilles Florey, Founder of KeyLemon at this link Startup of the Day – KeyLemon

What is Microsoft BizSpark?

BizSpark is an innovative new program designed to unite Startups and resources to support them into a single community. BizSpark is uniquely designed to help Startups engaged in software development, by
- providing them with “express access” to Microsoft tools and technologies, for their immediate use in design, development, testing, demonstration, and hosted application production and deployment;
- connecting them with Network Partners and a united, global community of support resources;
- andoffering them global visibility on the MicrosoftStartupZone website via the BizSparkDB, an online Startup directory, hosted on the MicrosoftStartupZone website.

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