AR apps like Ikea Place help you choose furniture for your own home. All that’s missing are pictures to ensure that the interior design is a complete success. But which motif matches the furniture and where correctly should the images be hung, centered or slightly shifted? Shortly Augmented Reality in combination with Artificial Intelligence could also offer support in such questions.
How Augmented Reality and AI help with interior design
At the beginning of the year, the auction house Sotheby’s bought the tech startup Thread Genius. The company, which specializes in artificial intelligence, develops algorithms that propose optically similar works of art based on a self-chosen image. In this way, users without any knowledge of art can find motifs that suit their taste.
The program can also analyze pictures of furniture according to shape and coloring and recommend suitable works of art or, conversely, evaluate photographs of works of art and recommend suitable furniture.
A video (see below) illustrates how the program works. The founders of Thread Genius Andrew Shum and Ahmad Qamar were previously involved in the development of Spotify’s music recommendation system.
Sotheby’s wants to combine the technology with its database of images and objects so that customers can find the items that suit their taste more quickly and efficiently in the future. Artificial Intelligence supports the work of the 300 human experts Sotheby’s employs.
Hang digital images on the wall with Augmented Reality
Following Sotheby’s example, specialized apps could support users in the selection of furniture and image motifs in the future. Once a variety has been made, the objects only have to be placed virtually in the room. Augmented Reality could help here.
The online shop Art.com, which offers posters and art prints with matching picture frames. They recently expanded its smartphone app with a useful AR function. So, users can choose from the provider’s two million motifs. And project the images including the structure in original size onto their wall to get an impression of the effect of the theme.