The progress may well be a result of international benchmarking challenges. These challenges
encourage research in information retrieval by providing large test collections, uniform
scoring procedures, and forums for comparing results. Two well-known examples are
TRECVid for evaluation of video retrieval and ImageNet for image classification.
This article introduces the idea of smart photography (automatically improving ormodifying
an image based on visual concept detection, performed entirely on the camera in real time)
and describes the Impala app, a real-world application developed by Euvision Technologies.