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2phevs I don't belittle you I merely point out some of the nonsense you post. You belittled me when
Maybe that's right but sort your dodgy posts out. Remember you and others hyping BS likely has put a fair few in the red. Ether you didn't understand the paper you posted earlier so thought it was a critique of Amazon's VPP or you knew it wasn't but lied regardless. Either way your posts always need to be taken with a large pinch of salt.
If mirriad has a moat due to IP it will surely succeed but given the space will be massive I'm sure larger players will navigate a way around it. We'll see.
OK LL so why do you think AMZN took on this highly qualified person for 4 minths to come up with an automated VPP solution (that is poor)?
Probably because AMZN could only do it manually then asked some highly qualified white paper writer PHD intern (please dont belittle him as well you are very personal LL) to come up with an automated version which had many issues
So now you're admitting your thread disingenuous, shock! I'll leave you to continue pumping but please try and cut out the lies. Yes you're massively underwater but stick to LinkedIn nonsense and ignore my warnings on raises, cash burn, pipeline putting break even out to like;ly end of next year.
And why on earth would AMZN ask him to come up with a solution if they already had one...LL
again 2phevs you are disingenuous just look at the title of this thread. you have stated it's a critique of amazon's version which is a lie. it's some students own version. very different indeed.
if amazon was having issues due to our ip i am sure amazon would buy us. we'll see but you need to stop your bull****.
Oh come on LL it came out recently that AMZN had thousands of human staff watching their staff and till free automated shops which have closed now
They announced looking into VPP in 2022 they get an intern to come up with one for them and it's amateur at best that could be a reason to use Mirriad by their existing partners via springserve and Triplelift do you not agree a possibility LL please stop the personal insults
2PHEVS you are sly. You implied the paper was a critique on amazon's VPP but it is a novel version developed by students. Much like you trying to suggest an unweighted pipeline was booked revenue
In this paper, we present a novel, fully automated, end to-end pipeline for Virtual Product Placement. The proposed method automatically determines a suitable location
for product placement into a background image, performs
product inpainting, and finally evaluates image quality to
ensure only high-quality images are presented for the downstream task
2
It was only published a few days ago you clown. Where does it say it's critiquing Amazon's version? It doesn't as it isn't it's there own basic version.
n this paper, a method of automated virtual product placement and assessment in images using diffusion models is
designed. Our broad contributions are as follows:
1. We introduce a novel fully automated VPP system that
carries out automatic semantic inpainting of the product
in the optimal location using language-guided segmentation and fine-tuned stable diffusion models.
2. We proposed a cascaded three-stage assessment module
named ‘Alignment Module’ designed to sieve out lowquality images that ensure the presence of the intended
product in every generated output image.
3. Morphological transformations are employed such as dilation and erosion to adjust the size of the mask, therefore, to increase or decrease the size of the inpainted
product allowing generating a product of appropriate
size.
4. Experiments are performed to validate the results by
blind evaluation of the generated images with and without the Alignment module resulting in 35% improvement in average quality.
5. The inpainted product generated by the proposed system
is not only qualitatively more realistic compared to the
previous inpainting approach [23]
He's spent 5 years writing white papers under assitance of 2 professors and he was asked to propose a solution for automated VPP for AMZN so he states in his linkedin profile
Is that the best AMZN can do
After reading the published report it can only be done on a flat surface and it can't be put on a moving taxi (Like Mirriad did with Doordash in the US) some results were terrible mis sizing and unusable around humans the report was carried out by a PHD guy in a US University between March and June 2023 so perhaps they have gone to Mirriad
It states AMZN used something similar to MSFT word art what a laugh
This was difficult to find only published 5 days ago view it in PDF personally I've seen better from a 2 man outfit trying to do this in Poland recently but make your own minds up
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01130
Are you having a laugh LL the guy that published this wa an intern at AMZN between May and Aug last year
Check him out factual
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahmudul-alam?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app
Can you not see how basic this effort is?
After reading the published report it can only be done on a flat surface and it can't be put on a moving taxi (Like Mirriad did with Doordash in the US) some results were terrible mis sizing and unusable around humans the report was carried out by a PHD guy in a US University between March and June 2023 so perhaps they have gone to Mirriad
It states AMZN used something similar to MSFT word art what a laugh
This was difficult to find only published 5 days ago view it in PDF personally I've seen better from a 2 man outfit trying to do this in Poland recently but make your own minds up
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01130
Why haven't you found something like this after all your years here LL?
You've turned the bb into your own facebook page, bewailing your disastrous investment in this over months or years. well done for salting the bb so noone uses it!
You think because the student was interned at AWS the paper is based on its VPP. Blimey you really are something
That isn't a critique of Amazon's version FFS - This paper introduces a novel three-stage fully automated
VPP system. In the first stage, a language-guided image
segmentation model identifies optimal regions within images for product inpainting. In the second stage, Stable Diffusion (SD), fine-tuned with a few example product images,
is used to inpaint the product into the previously identified
candidate regions. The final stage introduces an ‘Alignment
Module’, which is designed to effectively sieve out lowquality images. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate
that the Alignment Module ensures the presence of the intended product in every generated image and enhances the
average quality of images by 35%. The results presented
in this paper demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed
VPP system, which holds significant potential for transforming the landscape of virtual advertising and marketing
strategies.
If you think one poster is going to move 1 billion shares upwards then you credit that individual with more clout then even the BoD.
and, if that's the way to make money then maybe try it yourself? (when all's said and done, making money is what this is about, no?)
Factual info LL have you read the AMZN VPP report and seen the blurred pictures? you know why I derisked and rapidly bought back after extra DD and have held for months now enoughs enough I don't want to keep having to paste the AMZN report all day
After some serious research found AMZN's laughable effort at VPPToday 07:30
After reading the published report it can only be done on a flat surface and it can't be put on a moving taxi (Like Mirriad did with Doordash in the US) some results were terrible mis sizing and unusable around humans the report was carried out by a PHD guy in a US University between March and June 2023 so perhaps they have gone to Mirriad
It states AMZN used something similar to MSFT word art what a laugh
This was difficult to find only published 5 days ago view it in PDF personally I've seen better from a 2 man outfit trying to do this in Poland recently but make your own minds up
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01130
2Phevs are you doing a pump and dump like you did last year? I guess with 7m to sell you are gonna be busy.
#MATESRATES for final Fundraise?
AMZN'S kiddie effort at VPP revealed by a PHD
After some serious research found AMZN's laughable effort at VPPToday 07:30
After reading the published report it can only be done on a flat surface and it can't be put on a moving taxi (Like Mirriad did with Doordash in the US) some results were terrible mis sizing and unusable around humans the report was carried out by a PHD guy in a US University between March and June 2023 so perhaps they have gone to Mirriad
It states AMZN used something similar to MSFT word art what a laugh
This was difficult to find only published 5 days ago view it in PDF personally I've seen better from a 2 man outfit trying to do this in Poland recently but make your own minds up
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01130
If you're still in this in 12months time, without the successes that show a doubling or better of the sp then more fool you.
you need to focus on today and what will move the sp higher now... even if it's just the optimism that whoever holds the new shares saw a good reason for profit from 1.25.
take a macro view and look at the v near term. the longer term is for the birds, until news comes along that confirms a change in prospects.
They sold 250m shares at 3p just 12 months ago and given the pipeline and possibly break even end of next year they will need to raise again in less than 12 months.2phevs and others dangerous and hyping and gullible newbies bought in and now underwater. It's currently oversold so should bounce but it did that last year went above 3p raise to 4p and then of course fell. My prediction is the same will happen here. If 2phevs is right and Amazon is now working with Mirriad than it'll fly but the huge dilution and raise more than bizarre.
Also, the pipe and this doesn;t sound like breakeven next year -
continue along the steady path towards programmatic, which has always been identified as the catalyst for future growth.
Bb swamped by a few posters merely restating their own belief about why they bought at the wrong time or why they now believe there is no future in this.
meanwhile, 500million shares were purchased at 1.25 and, as they couldn't possibly have been forward sold, they obviously have a different take on the future, based on their buy price.
people endlessly posting here need to understand the new perspective of this and not keep banging on about the state of the company as it was prior to the fundraise, regardless of your own average.
your job is to make money from this, somehow. detailing the minutiae of some aspect of the company which you're using to self-explain your own investment.
enough with the self-flagellation. either average down and try and make some money on the rise from the drop or just wait for the rise to reduce your paper loss and decide what to do then.
but noone wants to read your mental meanderings on why you bought when you did and its consequences.
sorry, but update your thinking to where we are now, at 1.3.
They had 68 customers that ran campaigns during 23 its probably going to be well above that this year so not much chance of some big deal pullout across that sort of spread
AMZN woeful effort at VPP below for anyone else
After some serious research found AMZN's laughable effort at VPPToday 07:30
After reading the published report it can only be done on a flat surface and it can't be put on a moving taxi (Like Mirriad did with Doordash in the US) some results were terrible mis sizing and unusable around humans the report was carried out by a PHD guy in a US University between March and June 2023 so perhaps they have gone to Mirriad
It states AMZN used something similar to MSFT word art what a laugh
This was difficult to find only published 5 days ago view it in PDF personally I've seen better from a 2 man outfit trying to do this in Poland recently but make your own minds up
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01130
The fact they have gone for unweighted should concern us as the weighted pipe must be pretty grim -
Unweighted Sales Pipeline:
In an unweighted sales pipeline, every deal is considered equally likely to close, regardless of its stage in the sales funnel.
This approach looks at the full potential value of opportunities at each stage.
For example, whether you’ve just made initial contact via a cold call or if the prospect is ready to sign, all deals are treated equally.
However, this can lead to inflated revenue forecasts if high-value opportunities fall through1.
Weighted Sales Pipeline:
A weighted sales pipeline takes into account the probability of closing for each deal based on its stage.
Deals further along in the pipeline are given more weight in sales forecasting because they have a higher likelihood of closing.