In December 2020 it was announced that Trash Inc had been acquired by VSCO - an Oakland CA based, VC-funded firm that functions as a creative channel that building creative tools, spaces, and connections driven by self-expression. Structured around creating dialog between AI and people, Trash Inc is part of a new branch of computer vision in the field of computational photography and video understanding: computational cinematography. The firm is developing tools for mobile video editing using existing capabilities in machine learning and computer vision techniques - examples would be face detection, activity recognition and sequence modeling - and using them to turn everyday videos shot on an iPhone into exciting, impactful mini-movies. Computational photography - a subfield of computer vision - revolutionized post-processing of images and advances in how cameras take photos. The intent is publish the results of this NSF research project with a view to contributing to the computer vision field as machine-assisted creative tools are being built.
