piXlogic: Analyzing Visual Data to Increase Revenues

These and many other use cases are supported by piXserve. The metadata that piXserve creates can be exported to add value to other customer systems. For example, piXlogic customers in the retail industry have used this capability to process videos of supermarkets shelves and automatically identify and recognize products, where they are located, and how many there are. These data can then be correlated to both cash register data as well as to scheduled planograms: the former to fine-tune marketing/sales campaigns and increase revenue; the latter to reduce compliance costs.

Other customer use cases have revolved around security, industrial inspection, and content discovery. For example, one customer uses piXserve to check defects in wind turbine blades. Video of the blades is collected with small drones. The video is then processed by piXserve. The software is given a set of sample images that define the appearance of the fault conditions of interest. When piXserve goes through the video, it compares against these and the frames where the fault conditions are matched are automatically tagged for review by a specialist inspector. Instead of spending hours reviewing mostly inconsequential video, the inspector spends minutes reviewing only those snippets identified by piXserve as most likely to contain faults. The increase in productivity is huge. In another use case, a customer in the publishing industry put piXserve to use on an archive containing millions of poorly organized and essentially un-tagged photographs. piXserve not only made the material searchable without human intervention, but also generated keyword metadata for use by production workflow systems.

In the security and defense space, piXlogic customers have leveraged piXserve’s ability to detect and recognize objects, faces, and text strings (in a variety of languages), from a range of source-platforms (security cameras, geospatial images, etc.). “piXlogic is very fortunate in that it works with premier partners, such as Carahsoft Technology Corp. These partnerships help piXlogic develop and maintain lasting relationships with its customers,” says Santucci.

Looking forward to the future, piXlogic aspires to empower its end users further, eventually enabling them to interact with the software much the same way as one communicates with a colleague. Working with images and videos is difficult and complex science. piXlogic wants to reduce and shield the user from these complexities thereby enabling broad and widespread enterprise applications.