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About
Groundlight is a computer vision platform that allows users to ask questions about images in plain English. It builds customized, human-supervised AI models that integrate into existing business logic. The platform offers features such as a REST API, Python SDK, advanced analytics, tunable confidence levels, and live cloud monitoring. Groundlight provides solutions for manufacturing, retail, and facilities management, enabling applications like quality control, inspection, and safety monitoring. Users can start with natural language queries and receive results quickly, with models adapting to changing environments.
Platform
Task
Features
• advanced analytics
• rest api access
• python sdk
• custom trained models
• customized data export
• annotation and labeling tools
• live cloud monitoring
• tunable confidence
FAQs
What is the difference between Computer Vision (CV), AI Vision, and Machine Vision?
As far as we're concerned, they're all just different terms for the same thing. Historically these different phrases have been preferred by different communities, which in recent years have come together due to amazing advances in AI technology. The term Computer Vision has traditionally been used in academic research, as a sub-discipline within the machine learning (ML) community. While Machine Vision is somewhat more common in industrial and manufacturing settings. AI Vision is a more modern and broadly-encompassing term which brings in current AI techniques like GPT-style transformers and natural language queries. It's totally reasonable to try to define subtle differences between the terms, but here at Groundlight we don't bother to distinguish. We just want to make it easy for you to solve your real-world vision problems!
Can I take Groundlight for a test drive?
Yes! Visit <https://dashboard.groundlight.ai/> and create an account. Once you’ve created your account, navigate to the ‘Explore’ page. From there you can create a detector, capture images and examine results all from your browser.
What is a detector?
A detector is what we call a computer vision model that you create using Groundlight AI. It answers a specific question and tunes the model for a specific set of images or scenes which you provide, from a camera feed or set of images.
What is an image query?
An image query is an individual image and question you send to the detector, which will return an answer. The detector will first attempt to answer with a specialized ML model, and if unsure, will escalate to a person, all behind the scenes. What you get is an answer, and that happens for each image that gets sent to a detector.
What’s the maximum rate I can submit image queries?
If you want high throughput analysis for video, ask us about setting up an [edge endpoint](https://github.com/groundlight/edge-endpoint). But in the cloud, Enterprise accounts can accommodate whatever rate you need. For free accounts the limit is 6/min. 30/min for Pro, and 60/min for Business. Again, to run faster, you will want an edge endpoint, which uses a local copy of your detector's model, which will typically respond to an image query in under 20 ms. An edge endpoint can scale horizontally to arbitrarily high throughputs depending on the hardware available. A small server can easily handle hundreds of frames per second, and by adding multiple GPUs in an edge cluster Groundlight can scale to hundreds of video streams.
What is Ground Truth?
For a Groundlight detector, Ground Truth is a select set of labeled images of the utmost quality - images where we're sure that the answer is correct. These are the images we use to measure how well the detector is performing, so more ground truth you provide, the more we will know about detector performance. Generally these answers must be provided by you, the person defining the detector, because only you know what the detector is trying to do, and exactly what your question means. Your inputs are the source of truth for accuracy and how the detector should behave. In some cases where there aren’t a lot of answers provided by you, a Groundlight staff expert can act as a proxy for your inputs, generally after a conversation with you.
What is the confidence threshold and how does it work?
The confidence threshold is a knob you can tune on any detector to manage the trade-off between fast ML answers and reliable human answers. At one extreme, a value of 1.0 means every single image query should be checked by a person. At the other extreme, a value of 0.5 means nothing gets checked by a person and we will always take the ML prediction as is. In between you can tune the detector's behavior to match your application's needs and budget. To dig in deeper, let's look at how a typical confidence threshold of 0.9 behaves on a detector. Every image query first gets an ML prediction - either YES, or NO, and a confidence value. If the confidence value is over 90%, we trust the ML answer. If the confidence value is under 90% then it is considered unsure, and gets escalated to human review.
What is the confidence score on an image query?
When an image query runs through the ML model, it outputs a prediction (either YES or NO) and a confidence score, from 50% to 100%. The confidence score is a careful scientific estimate of the odds this ML prediction is correct. So if the confidence score is 99% (or 0.99 - same thing), this is awesome! Because it means your ML model is doing a fantastic job. So good in fact, that we know there's a 99% chance the ML prediction is correct. This is what happens when you have a mature, well-trained detector. But if your ML prediction comes with a confidence score of 75%, that means the answer will be correct 75% of the time, but there's a one-on-four chance it made a mistake. If the confidence score is something like 52% then the detector is admitting that it's basically just guessing. This is typical when it has never seen something like this before. All of this is written specifically for binary YES/NO questions. For other detector modes, some details are different, but the idea is the same.
Is Groundlight better than ChatGPT at computer vision?
Yes! Check out our blog post [here](https://www.groundlight.ai/blog/chatgpt-ai-for-analyzing-images). GPT is not reliable enough for most real-world visual analyses. It can analyze images in the sense of producing text related to the content of the image, and sometimes this produces the correct answer to specific questions. But very often it only understands the general sense of the image, and will make incorrect statements when asked about specifics. Moreover, customizing GPT or any other LLM for your exact needs is generally a fairly involved effort. However, for trustworthy, repeatable, and actionable answers, you are better off training a specialized model. Groundlight allows you to do just that: all the machine learning engineering ops are hidden behind its simple service.
What are the kinds of questions I can ask?
You can ask binary questions where the response is either yes or no, and count questions where the response is a numerical integer. We are building additional modes: multiple choice, bounding boxes, text recognition are all in the works. They're available as previews for Enterprise accounts. Interested? [Schedule a free consultation](https://www.groundlight.ai/schedule-demo) with us.
How does escalation work?
When you submit an image query to a detector, the ML model runs inference and makes a prediction. If the confidence on that prediction is below the detector's configured confidence threshold, the image query will be _escalated_ to a person for a more definitive answer. That person’s response answers the question that was asked, and also goes back into retraining the model. In some scenarios, there is an intermediate step where a larger ML model attempts to answer the image query before it is further escalated to human labelers. Groundlight has a 24/7 labor force of online labelers available to answer any image queries that the models struggle to understand. In some cases, our cloud labelers will also decide that an image query is ‘unclear.’ You can find those in the ‘Flagged’ section in Detector Details (go to “Detectors” tab, select the detector you wish to see detail for). This may happen, for example, for reasons of poor image quality or ambiguity in the question. For example if you ask "Is the door closed" but it's slightly ajar, the cloud labelers will mark this as unclear so that you can clarify your intent. You can help by labeling the unclear examples yourself, and providing clear instructions in the query text and notes. For more detail, see our [blog post on best practices.](https://www.groundlight.ai/blog/best-practices-for-best-results-with-groundlight)
Do I own the rights to the dataset for my detectors? Can I download the dataset?
Yes! You always own your data - see our terms of service [here](https://try.groundlight.ai/e3t/Ctc/L1+23284/d4HmQ104/Jks2-6qcW69sMD-6lZ3mbW7JG7Lg2dZDs6W8xdcbQ2jKsn6N8j0bw0xRBtHN4SY4tzdks1CW4FgjMj7wybFKW3nLLnt28JFJtW8F33ZS3CFSgPW7RCcwz5wgpZBW4DddwZ8S1HJBW42w-Bs1TTfHcW6jstyX6G1Zy1W4z%5FhYn3WmgR8W35RbKJ16P4BJV-mtlm2V4vVqW8ktxbS67rVWQW8Tmclb8kN6RyW2yjlFf51VtsnW51hBj395ld4kVhPF-h3d9SH2W4WXv8p7Kt678f2cSPPn04). Data can be downloaded using the SDK, and paid accounts can export their data from the web dashboard.
Do I own the models that my detectors have?
Paid accounts can download models to run on a Groundlight Hub or a custom edge endpoint. [Connect](https://calendly.com/meg-groundlight/30min) with a Groundlight team member to learn more.
Does Groundlight charge for training models (training credits)?
No. With other computer vision tools, there is an explicit cost for training and a cost for inference. With Groundlight, each time a label is provided by your or one of our cloud labelers, the models automatically retrain to get the most accurate data. Cloud labels provided by groundlight staff are a part of the paid service and are subject to limitations based on your account tier.
How do I add an image query after creating a detector?
There are multiple ways to add an image to a detector. You can do it manually using the dashboard web interface. But for real automation, you probably want to write or use an application that uses the Groundlight Python SDK to submit images. If you're writing code to grab images from a camera, we recommend the python library [Framegrab](https://pypi.org/project/framegrab/) to simplify and standardize access to network cameras, USB web cameras, and high-quality industrial cameras. Another option is to use a [Groundlight Hub](https://www.groundlight.ai/products/groundlight-hub). Groundlight Hub enables you to connect to any local cameras- go to the ‘hubs’ tab in your groundlight ai account and select the hub with the camera(s) you wish to fetch images from. From there, you can select the camera, detector, stream, and alert you’d like to enable.
Pricing Plans
Free
Free Plan• 1,000 Image Queries /mo
• 50 Cloud Labels Included /mo
• Reduced Cloud Labeling priority
• Limit of 3 Active Detectors
Pro
$149.00 / per month• 10,000 Image Queries /mo
• 500 Cloud Labels Included /mo
• Standard Overage Rate: $19 per additional 1k Queries & 50 Cloud Labels
• Limit of 5 Active Detectors
Business
$399.00 / per month• 25,000 Image Queries /mo
• 1500 Cloud Labels Included /mo
• Discounted Overage Rate: $17 per additional 1k Queries & 60 Cloud Labels
• Limit of 15 Active Detectors
Enterprise
Unknown Price• Unlimited Queries
• Unlimited Cloud Labels
• Custom pricing on Queries and Cloud Labels to fit your business
• Unlimited Active Detectors
Job Opportunities
Senior Applied Computer Vision Scientist
Groundlight provides reliable AI vision with 24/7 human oversight. It answers plain English questions about images, builds customized AI models, and integrates seamlessly into existing business logic, requiring no ML expertise.
Benefits:
Full insurance benefits including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your dependants
401k plan with employer matching
Flexible PTO and employees are encouraged to take time off to recharge
Flexible working hours
Parental leave
Education Requirements:
PhD or equivalent research experience
Other Requirements:
Strong background in CV, ML, AI, computer science, engineering or related fields
Track record of applied research in computer vision
Responsibilities:
Research and develop algorithms for computer vision-based problems including scene understanding and anomaly detection
Develop performance and quality metrics for ML models and systems
Collaborate with software engineers and product owners on system architecture, design and production code, especially where ML models are used
Keep up to date with state of the art in ML and CV
Mentor younger scientists
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Sales Development Representative
Groundlight provides reliable AI vision with 24/7 human oversight. It answers plain English questions about images, builds customized AI models, and integrates seamlessly into existing business logic, requiring no ML expertise.
Benefits:
Full insurance benefits including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your dependants
401k plan with employer matching
Flexible PTO and employees are encouraged to take time off to recharge
Flexible working hours
Parental leave
Experience Requirements:
3-5 years of customer-facing B2B technical sales experience
Other Requirements:
Passion for computer vision AI
Exceptional oral and written communication skills
Stellar time management and organizational skills
Resourcefulness and results driven
Highly collaborative
Responsibilities:
Deliver on sales growth goals by researching, prospecting, and leading customer discovery, qualifying leads and generating new revenue streams.
Schedule customer discovery calls and work in close partnership with product and engineering to deliver tailor-made solutions for key accounts
Develop and deliver sales pitch decks and collateral that accurately conveys the products’ features, benefits, and value proposition across verticals. Maintain updated sales collateral and pipeline documentation
Research and build new and existing accounts through rigorous follow up communication across channels. Develop and nurture cadence for key sales opportunities.
Exercise exceptional communication skills collaborating directly with customers, cross-functional teams, and key stakeholders and influencers. Establish and cultivate great relationships with key influencers for opportunities of all sizes.
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Senior/Principal ML Engineer
Groundlight provides reliable AI vision with 24/7 human oversight. It answers plain English questions about images, builds customized AI models, and integrates seamlessly into existing business logic, requiring no ML expertise.
Benefits:
Full insurance benefits including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your dependants
401k plan with employer matching
Flexible PTO and employees are encouraged to take time off to recharge
Flexible working hours
Parental leave
Experience Requirements:
5+ years of production/cloud software engineering experience
Other Requirements:
Proven experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams, including ML scientists and engineers, to develop scalable ML models in production environments.
Experience with cloud-based ML services (AWS, GCP, etc.), edge computing, and GPU farm management.
Solid understanding of data science pipelines, model training, and real-time inference systems.
Passion for working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with the latest advancements in AI technology.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop, optimize, and maintain machine learning models for various systems, including front-end integration, back-end services, edge devices, and cloud-based inference and training systems.
Collaborate closely with our ML scientists and product owners to translate functional requirements into detailed ML engineering plans and implement them in production systems.
Develop analytics, monitoring tools, and pipelines for data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, and deployment.
Participate in on-call rotation to maintain production ML systems, troubleshoot models, and resolve customer issues related to AI performance.
Stay at the cutting edge of AI technology, experimenting and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with the latest ML frameworks and tools.
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