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28 February 2019

Canon has launched RAISE, the company's first online photo-community platform. The platform uses artificial intelligence to help photographers organize and categorize their photos through auto-tagging.

"Creativity is born from community -- from collaboration with like-minded individuals," said Kazuto Ogawa, Canon president and chief operating officer. "With RAISE, we are building that community for photographers.

"Through this new platform, photographers from all different professional backgrounds and skill sets can come together to share their talents and connect with others in the community. Simply put, we hope RAISE will inspire the next generation of photographers to RAISE the bar and propel their creativity to new heights."

HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights of the new platform include:

  • Organize: Photos uploaded to the platform can be auto-tagged with category and subject tags as well as photo-centric tags such as the composition, style, emotion and color. Users can upload high-resolution JPEG images to the platform and all photographers retain ownership of all images uploaded to RAISE.
  • Explore: Photographers can share insights in the RAISE community to teach, learn and help improve each other's skills.
  • Share: Photographers can create Collections within RAISE to privately share even with those who may not be a part of the RAISE community.

LIGHTROOM PLUG-IN

An Adobe Lightroom plug-in version of RAISE, compatible with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC, is currently scheduled to be released next month. This will further enhance the usability of the RAISE features such as auto-tagging images within a user's Lightroom library through RAISE collections in the platform.

JOINING

To join the apparently free service, you set up an account. You must agree to the following condition:

Canon may collect information about the images you upload, including EXIF data, tags, and information about the features of the objects/individuals depicted in order to create a trainable dataset for the artificial intelligence engine currently being developed by Canon. Images of residents of Illinois, Texas or Washington are not permitted on the Platform and may be taken down. For more information see the news release below.

Canon U.S.A. Launches RAISE, Its First Online Photo Community

New AI-Integrated Platform Can Help Photographers Advance Their Craft, Save Time with an Improved Workflow as well as Easily Organize and Share Their Photos

MELVILLE, N.Y. -- In 2017, approximately 1.2 trillion photos were taken, turning millions of people into prolific photographers, who are spending a tremendous amount of time arranging and searching through their library of photos. To help photographers streamline their workflow and continually improve their craft, Canon U.S.A., a leader in digital imaging solutions, has announced the company's first online photo-community platform -- RAISE. This new platform utilizes artificial intelligence to help photographers organize and categorize their photos through auto-tagging.

Features and benefits of RAISE include:

  • Organize -- Through the use of Canon's AI engine, photos uploaded to the platform can be auto-tagged through category and subject tags, as well as photo-centric tags such as the composition, style, emotion and color. Users can upload high-resolution JPEG images to the platform and all photographers retain ownership of all images uploaded to RAISE.
  • Explore -- Photographers can receive insights from the RAISE community to learn and help improve their skills to step-up their photography. They can also draw inspiration from the platform with a feed personalized for them based on their own uploaded photos, tags and preferences.
  • Share -- Photographers can create Collections within RAISE to privately share with current and prospective clients as well as loved ones, who may not be a part of the RAISE community. A photographer's work can also be shared publicly within the community to receive recognition as well as photo-centric compliments from other photographers, like "great lighting," beautiful composition," etc.

An Adobe Lightroom plug-in version of RAISE, which is compatible with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC, is currently scheduled to be released next month. This will further enhance the usability of the RAISE features such as auto-tagging images within a user's Lightroom library through RAISE collections in the platform.

"Creativity is born from community -- from collaboration with like-minded individuals," said Kazuto Ogawa, president and chief operating officer, Canon U.S.A., Inc. "With RAISE, we are building that community for photographers. Through this new platform, photographers from all different professional backgrounds and skill sets can come together to share their talents and connect with others in the community. Simply put, we hope RAISE will inspire the next generation of photographers to RAISE the bar and propel their creativity to new heights."

For more information about RAISE and/or to join the community visit http://raise.usa.canon.com.


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