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Image 2 |Text recognition (OCR) on the back of a watch with Denknet OCR. The OCR was not adapted or optimized for the case.
Image 2 |Text recognition (OCR) on the back of a watch with Denknet OCR. The OCR was not adapted or optimized for the case.Image: Denkweit GmbH

Vision AI technologies are leading to a radical change in the industry. By using learning systems, completely new markets can be opened and applications can be implemented with significantly fewer and untrained personnel. Hardly any image pre-processing is required and simple camera technologies without extra lighting are often sufficient. However, the right technologies must be selected as the basis for this. Furthermore, these technologies are extremely complex and diverse and fall into scientific areas of mathematics, which are very specialized. Simple solutions or even open source solutions lead to unstable and poor solutions, even if they are initially successful. Companies are currently burning a lot of money developing their own solutions without realizing that this does not give them a market advantage. Furthermore, the quality of these solutions is often poor.

Image 1 | Pick&Place application (truck components) and component counting. The components are randomly distributed. The application uses simple single lighting, which leads to strong shadows being cast at the edges.
Image 1 | Pick&Place application (truck components) and component counting. The components are randomly distributed. The application uses simple single lighting, which leads to strong shadows being cast at the edges.Image: Denkweit GmbH

A few clicks for individual software solutions

This is exactly where Denkweit comes in with the Denk Vision AI Hub, which allows anyone to create their own image analysis with just a few clicks and from 15 images. The user is guided to their individual image analysis without any know-how or special hardware. Complex tasks can be solved thanks to the availability and combination of different approaches such as object recognition, pixel-precise finding of objects or anomaly detection and available ready-made solutions such as OCR (text reading), GDPR or the recognition of barcodes or QR codes.

Thanks to more than hundreds of applications, the company can provide efficient support from the first meeting to the final deployment. Denkweit has also developed appropriate software solutions that guarantee the successful use of AI-based systems. A good example of this is the Quality Center, in which the data record quality can be improved for reliable AI, or the One-Click-Tool, with which objects can be annotated with pixel precision with just one click. Complex professional features are available without compromising on simplicity. Examples include negative samples, local and global regions of interest (ROI), control of proofing mechanisms or the ability to experiment with different training states and return the AI and the associated data set to a previous state at any time.

Image 3 | Recognition of the entire German STVO catalog and road-relevant objects (~ 1000 classes). Actively in use for the inventory of the traffic system.
Image 3 | Recognition of the entire German STVO catalog and road-relevant objects (~ 1000 classes). Actively in use for the inventory of the traffic system.Image: Denkweit GmbH

Deep tech as a USP

The strongest USP is the high level of technological expertise. With more than six years of experience and absolute focus on Vision AI technologies, Denkweit has been able to develop many technologies that lead to stable and high-performance solutions. The focus has always been on stable and generalized use in the real world, which the customers appreciate. The user does not have to worry about specialist knowledge – whether, for example, images are too large for the GPU or data sets are mixed with different resolutions or even measurement methods. The Denk network architecture search is unique in that it finds the right mathematical functions for each individual application. Solutions are therefore always highly customized to the applications. Thanks to other technologies, such as the generation of thousands of artificial variants of the original data or the use of state-of-the-art architectures such as Vision Transformer, customers are guaranteed to receive the ideal solutions for their application.

Cover all markets

With over 100 active Denknets, the company has a lot of experience in implementing solutions and covers all markets. From the evaluation of drone flight data, inventory of roads and railroad lines, reading texts on all surfaces, evaluation of medical data, quality management of production, end-of-line controls and integration into various measurement methods of device manufacturers, there are hardly any limits to the applications. Device manufacturers in particular can improve or expand the range of services with little effort.

Location: Germany

Year founded: 2018

Founder(s): 3

No. of employees: 23

Commercial status: profitable