Pinterest hires Google’s Chuck Rosenberg to lead visual search team

Pinterest today announced it has hired Google computer vision research lead Chuck Rosenberg to be the company’s head of computer vision and lead its visual search engineering team.
During his nearly 15 years at Google, Rosenberg led image search and image understanding groups at the search giant and helped the company implement its first neural nets.
Pinterest has been about more than pins for some time now, investing heavily in talent to improve its computer vision features. With the emer