Verso

Verso is an AI-experiment with computer vision software to monitor any type of media and analyze the impact.

Verso is an AI-experiment with computer vision software to monitor any type of media (TV, YouTube, Instagram, cams) and analyze the impact. Its goal is to discover patterns of how the messages spread across all platforms. The project is called VERSO because it aims to show what relative difference there is between world leaders by their TV coverage. Verso monitors TV channels to find people of interest. Its system takes snapshots of every covered channel at the rate of one per second. All detected faces then go through the computer vision processing tool to see if there is a target person. Verso's algorithms are able to tell in a matter of milliseconds if a person on screen is the one from the list, even when image is blurred or the face is turned away. Thus stats that it show are real-time. The points seen in front of each political figure are equal to the amount of times one was detected on screen; the percentage figures show one's share among all the people analysed.