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Job Opening: Mobile Application Developer - MOGA| Woodinville, WA

Location: Woodinville, WA
Divison: Consumer Products
Direct Report: TBD
Employment Type: Salaried; Exempt
Qualifications & Experience
5+ years of relevant experience in software development, information systems or equivalent technical environment; minimum 1-year experience in development utilizing Android SDK; iOS and/or WP7 a plus.
Proven experience delivering successful software, including customer-facing mobile applications, preferably game apps currently available via Google Play, Xbox LIVE and/or the App Store.
Solid understanding of in-app analytics and PII best practices.
BA/BS in Computer Science or related field preferred; Interactive Design a plus.
Skills & Traits
Passion for app development, focus on UX/UI, strong project management skills and attention to detail are required.
Proficiency in Java, Android SDK frameworks, XML, web-service technologies, emerging web standards (i.e., HTML 5), analytics tools (i.e., Omniture, Google Analytics).
Ability to plan, drive and complete projects. A thinker and a doer.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong problem solving abilities including an ability to influence internal stakeholders.
Ability to take initiative and demonstrate leadership.
Desire to work hard, learn fast, generate ideas and make things happen the best way in a changing environment. Willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done.
Professional disposition/appearance, and positive attitude and outlook.
Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills.
Interest in video games a plus.
Duties & Responsibilities
Develop mobile applications for BDA’s Consumer Products division, creating simple interactions for complex functionality.
Work with supervisor and co-workers to prioritize projects, app features and deliverable timelines for maximum business impact.
Manage requirements, documentation, testing and participate in troubleshooting efforts within a highly matrixed organization.
Work with supervisor and creative staff/contractors to drive the process of UI design, apply user tests, specify user flows/screens and direct graphical design within the framework of BDA’s consumer brands, owning the day-to-day execution in the form of design comp reviews, functional reviews with development teams, and presentations to internal stakeholders.
Serve as company-wide mobile app subject matter expert (SME).
Coordinate content delivery with BDA’s consumer packaging teams and websites, including PowerA.com and MUNITIO.com.
Participate in creative brainstorm meetings to provide input for fresh, new ideas, vision and project direction.
Develop and maintain an effective, positive working relationship with other BDA teams and individuals.
Additional marketing responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
Occasional weekend and evening hours required.
Contact
Melissa
Only local canidates or persons willing to relcoate will be considered (no relocation fee will be paid).

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Android Hacker/Developer/Technologist needed for a 120 hour 100% remote project

We have an immediate need for an Android Technologist / Hacker. This project will take around 100-120 hours and there will be future projects available if the person is interested. All work can be done from home (100% remote).
Our company creates digital marketing experiences for national brands at sporting and entertainment events, retails stores, conventions etc. We recently completed a large project for the Super Bowl and we also have exhibits at the Final Four and many other large events.
The first large project will be to make a 360 degree photo booth using android cameras. We want to be able to press a button and have all the cameras take a picture at the same time. We need this person to hack the android devices so that they can trigger their cameras in real time and then save the images locally so the client can pull them off the devices.
Requirements/Skills of the Android Technologist / Hacker:
• Strong experience rooting, networking and streamlining android devices.
• Basic android app development skills (functionality, not front-end development).
• Ability to work independently (100% remote).
• Ability to tackle the project described above.
If you have any interest please email me at [email protected]

Looking for a Techie/Geek in Goa

Job Title
Project Coordinator - TI R&D
Location
Panjim, Goa
About the Company
91springboard is a startup co-working space and incubator, that provides space to startups and a number of service providers to work towards together to build their businesses. The space provides plug-and-play office infrastructure where startups can work and interact with other entrepreneurs. Members of 91springboard get access to a coworking space with 24X7 office-infrastructure support, key service providers, knowledge sharing & collaboration, networking and of course, a free-spirited culture that breeds innovation!
About the department
The Technology Infrastructure department is responsible for our entire network and IT Hardware. As a part of this team, you will optimize member experience when using our services and drive a culture of continuous innovation to improve our services and infrastructure. We are scaling rapidly and you will ensure that we have the technology driven means to do so.
About the position
1. Are you a person who is often lost in the world of tech and finds himself luxuriating in it?
2. Are you that person who digs deep into something just because you have hunger to know more?
3. Have you broken enough things, blown away the electronics because you were trying to fix it or improve it?
If you answered a yes to even one of the questions, you <3 technology and you are looking in the right direction. So, continue reading.
As a Project Coordinator, we are essentially looking for a person who is a tech-geek and possess strong execution skills. You will own end-to-end technology innovations at 91springboard. It requires the you to be extremely motivated, independent and passionate about their responsibilities. A geek with a lust for gadgets and tech will be right at home in this position.
You will have to speak with various stakeholders (customers, internal business heads, the internet, and competitors) to figure out what improvements to drive, how they will be realized (quality, hardware, software, vendors and price) and oversee the process of a) requirements gathering, b) prototyping the solution, and c) delivering the solution at an optimum price, keeping in mind the firm’s overall budgets. The TI-R&D Team works closely with the Project Setup and TI-Networking team on implementing finalized solutions at all the hubs.
Developers, this probably isn’t the right job for you, but perhaps you have a friend who would be a perfect fit. Tell them about this. Thanks!
Key Responsibilities
We’re looking for a strong candidate who can own and drive the following primary responsibilities of the team:
Data: Making rich data available to the company by means of creating different systems like positioning systems, visitor management systems and tracking the entry and exit times, flow and crowded areas at the hub, guest feedback and so on.
Productivity:
For Members: Includes smooth video conferencing, printing solutions and so on.
For Team: Includes computing solutions, website technology, platforms used internally etc.
Security: Leveraging technology to make our spaces a safe environment to work in. Includes Access Control Systems, CCTV, authentication systems etc.
Events: High-quality Audio/Video systems, good live streaming solutions and recording for each type (location, speaker format, audience size and engagement etc.) of event.
Community & Fun: Enhancing the community experience at the hubs via Digital Signages, good AV, gaming rooms and so on.
Documentation: Create technology documentation for the rest of the firm to learn from and emulate throughout our network of hubs.
What we have for your tech infatuations:
1. A fast paced learning and working environment.
2. The hardware, software and reading resources that you’ll need to grow from a ‘tech enthusiast’ to ‘Tech Guru’.
This job is for you if:
1. You enjoy solving problems. You love taking on difficult challenges and finding creative solutions. You don’t get flustered easily. If you don’t know the answer, you’ll dig until you find it.
2. You pay attention to the details. As far as you’re concerned, anything worth doing is worth doing right, every single time. You stay focused, and nothing falls through the cracks on your watch.
3. You communicate clearly. You write well. You speak eloquently. You can explain just about anything to anyone, and you are comfortable communicating in written and on the phone.
4. You think on your feet. You like learning new things, and you can learn quickly. When things change, you know how to roll with the punches.
5. You like helping people. You get a kick out of getting people to those aha! Moments. You are patient, level headed, and cool under pressure. Teaching someone something new makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
6. You are motivated and driven. You volunteer for new challenges without waiting to be asked. You’re going to take an ownership of the time you spend with us and truly make a difference.
Extra Awesome:
1. Knowledge of coding and databases.
2. Knowledge of mobile OS and great productivity apps.
3. A gamer and comics reader. (Yes, we love hosting LAN parties.)
Year of Experience
2-3 years of exciting and playful experience of working with/studying various hardware and software technologies.
Education
A graduate in technology or computer sciences. B.Tech. or B.E. prefered
Contact @
[email protected]

Visual Aesthetics: Judging a photo’s quality using AI techniques

Visual aesthetics has been shown to critically affect a variety of constructs such as perceived usability, satisfaction, and pleasure. However, visual aesthetics is also a subjective concept and therefore, presents its unique challenges in training a machine learning algorithm to learn such subjectiveness.
Given the importance of visual aesthetics in human-computer interaction, it is vital that machines adequately assess the concept of visual aesthetics. Machine learning, especially deep learning techniques have already shown great promise on tasks with well-defined goals such as identifying objects in images or translating from one language to another. However, quantification of image aesthetics has been one of the most persistent problems in image processing and computer vision.
We decided to build a deep learning system that can automatically analyze and score an image for aesthetic quality with high accuracy. Please check out our demo to check your photo’s aesthetic score.
About the Research
We came up with a novel Deep Convolutional Neural Network which can be trained to recognize an image’s aesthetic quality. We also came up with multiple hacks while training the algorithm to increase the accuracy.
In our paper published on arxiv, we have proposed a new neural network architecture which can model the data efficiently by taking both low level and high-level features into account. It is a variant of DenseNets which has a skip connection at the end of every dense block. Besides this, we also propose training techniques that can increase the accuracy with which the algorithm trains. These methods are to train on LAB color space and to use similar images in a minibatch to train the algorithm, which we call coherent learning. Using these techniques, we get an accuracy of 78.7% of the AVA2 dataset. The state of the art accuracy on the AVA2 dataset is 85.6% which uses a deep Convolutional Neural Network with pretrained weights on the imagenet dataset. The best accuracy on the AVA2 dataset using handcrafted features is 68.55%. We also show that adding more data to our training set (from AVA dataset not included in AVA2) increases its accuracy to 81.48% on AVA2 Test Set, hence showing the model gets better with more data.
Use-cases of Visual Aesthetics
App developers of social media sites can help their users decide which photo will suit best for their profile image. We all have faced anxiety while uploading photos on social media sites or changing our display pic. With our API integration, app developers can help their users look good, always!
Smart Machine Learning algorithms can help you put your best photo on dating apps
Ok, now this use-case may not appeal to the zen, non-materialistic folks among us but to be honest, dating leads to the most social anxiety. Dating landscape keeps changing as well and therefore, if you are active on dating apps, it’s important to choose your best photos to improve your chances for right swipes!
Dating App developers can easily integrate our APIs to help their users upload their best photos; the visual aesthetics model can also be fine-tuned if the developers want to optimise it on their data set.
Recently Google has launched Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL which has a portrait mode. This phone offers the portrait mode even though it lacks the second lens that many other phones have. For example, the iPhone X, Galaxy Note 8, OnePlus 5… all these phones offer the portrait mode because they use data from two lenses. One lens captures the image, the other one captures the depth information, apart from providing some focal range magic for the blurred background. However, Pixel phone uses AI to give HDR+ images to users which are comparable to pictures clicked by a DSLR camera.
Similarly, mobile manufacturers can augment the capabilities of their native camera by integrating the visual aesthetic APIs to let their users know in real-time the quality of their photo even before taking a snap! This will enable your users to share their photos with confidence and you will end up creating a great differentiator for your brand at no additional hardware cost.
Virality in online content
visual aesthetics
Content is king, and it has become ever more difficult to write compelling content that resonates with your audience. However, the best content these days often have great images to complement them, and therefore, you’ve got to include something that will keep eyes moving down the page.
BuzzSumo did an analysis that covered over 1 million articles and found that the ones that had images every 75-100 words had more social shares. Using our visual aesthetics tool, you can quickly check how appealing your images are and accordingly, improve the virality of your blog post.
In this blog post, we have covered some of the use-cases of our visual aesthetics API. When machines become more competent than humans to judge such subjective content, it opens up a lot of possibilities to exploit which were not feasible yet. You can read more blogs on Visual Analytics here.
ParallelDots AI APIs are a deep learning powered web service by ParallelDots Inc, that can comprehend a huge amount of unstructured text and visual content to empower your products. You can check out some of our Visual Analytics APIs and write to us at [email protected].

[APP] Upscale Media - AI Image Upscaler

Upscale and Enhance Your Images for FREE​
Hello
I am very excited to introduce our new AI-powered product Upscale.media
Our AI-powered solution helps users upscale and enhance their images for FREE . We faced the problem of low-quality photos that couldn’t be used anywhere and tried to solve it with AI-ML
During the past 1 year, Our tech team has done extensive research into preserving detailed textures in images and processed more than 10 million photos - for business and personal use. Today I’m extremely excited to introduce our image upscaler tool.
Here are a few highlights of Upscale.media:
It's 100% Free to use and forever will be.
Get higher-quality images, Increase resolution up to 4x.
Color enhancement. Automatically adjust brightness and saturation.
Improved accuracy. Smarter upscaling with JPEG artifact removal.
Remove JPEG artifacts
No pixelation or blurry details.
We studied many personal & business use cases to solve their problems with this tool:
For E-commerce - Increase conversion rates of your e-commerce website with sharp and clear images.
Art - Upscale your digital art or NFTs while maintaining all the high-quality details
Real estate - Give your clients the best customer experience with high-quality, attractive property photos.
Individuals - Enhancement was never this easy but with the help of AI, it can be done in a few seconds.
Download:
Get it on Google Play
Get on the App Store
Thanks for your support! Hope you enjoy using our tool! Please, let us know your feedback in this thread directly
Also, you can send any suggestions to our support email: [email protected].

"It's 100% Free to use and forever will be." - it is untrue statement, in the light of your T&C's:
9. 1. You grant to us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to adopt, publish, reproduce, disseminate, transmit, distribute, copy, use, create derivative works from, display worldwide, or act on any material posted by you on the Platform without additional approval or consideration in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content and you waive any claim overall feedback, comments, ideas or suggestions or any other content provided through or on the Platform. You agree to perform all further acts necessary to perfect any of the above rights granted by you to us, including the execution of deeds and documents, at your request.
Effectively, you are processing users pictures for obtaining the full copyrights to these.
Personally, I believe that cheating on your potential users is not a very good start but of course this is up to you how you want to prsent ypourself to the community at XDA.

spamtrash said:
"It's 100% Free to use and forever will be." - it is untrue statement, in the light of your T&C's:
9. 1. You grant to us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to adopt, publish, reproduce, disseminate, transmit, distribute, copy, use, create derivative works from, display worldwide, or act on any material posted by you on the Platform without additional approval or consideration in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content and you waive any claim overall feedback, comments, ideas or suggestions or any other content provided through or on the Platform. You agree to perform all further acts necessary to perfect any of the above rights granted by you to us, including the execution of deeds and documents, at your request.
Effectively, you are processing users pictures for obtaining the full copyrights to these.
Personally, I believe that cheating on your potential users is not a very good start but of course this is up to you how you want to present yourself to the community at XDA.
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I applaud you for your patience in reading the license & usage agreement on behalf of XDA users. This type of "ownership" over content is what should scare a lot of users, infact should scare all people.
They effectively own your art, photography, and designs... Anything you submit is now theirs to sell & use.
That's why I stick to Topaz Labs (gigapixel AI, video enhancer AI, ect.)
I do not work for any of these or in this industry. But I can tell you they do all the processing OFFLINE. And claim no ownership of your content.
The AI neural models are online-downloaded, stored offline for convenience, & privacy reasons.
This type of ownership what a ton of Chinese - based apps lately release try to do. They effectively collect and store EVERY photo you upload in exchange for a crappy upscale (in most cases). The Chinese gov now owns them; so think twice where you upload.