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How Voxel AI Processed 50M Images and Doubled Customer Onboarding Speed Using Lightly

Lightly helped Voxel AI process 50M images in six months, cut retraining time by 50%, double onboarding speed, and improve model accuracy by 10% by selecting only the most relevant unlabeled frames.

Harishma Dayanidhi
Co-Founder/ VP of Engineering
Overview

Lightly helped Voxel AI process 50M images in six months, cut retraining time by 50%, double onboarding speed, and improve model accuracy by 10% by selecting only the most relevant unlabeled frames.

Industry
Safety
Location
Bay Area, CA, U.S
Employee
>100

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Products
LightlyOne
Results
10%
Model Accuracy Improvement
Use Case
Data curation for hazard detection

About

Voxel AI teaches AI-powered security cameras to detect hazards and inefficiencies in real time. This allows customers to build a proactive safety culture and eliminate near-misses with the ultimate site visibility platform. Voxel’s deep learning-based systems detect various use cases: ergonomics, environment, vehicles, PPE, and operations. For customers,Voxel’s solution does not only offer more security to employees but also financial benefits for the employer by preventing accidents, injuries and alike. Over the past years, the company out of the bay area has matured to one of the world’s leading providers of such systems.

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A glimpse into Voxels' safety solution

Problem

Voxel’s solution must perform on various sites worldwide. Before launch, sample video data is collected from site cameras over a short period of time. But training the AI model based on full recordings of video feeds is neither an efficient nor optimal solution.

For Voxel, it was crucial to find a solution for the following issues:

  • Selection: Voxel was looking at hundreds of hours of unlabeled data without an in-house solution to select intelligently or based on their criteria
  • Efficiency: The onboarding of new customers was time-intensive, so the need for an end-to-end data curation solution was immense.

Voxel was looking for a way to improve the speed of their customer deployments and allow customers to start using their platform quickly by minimizing the amount of time required to train its model. Accordingly, they needed to find an efficient way to select the most interesting data to annotate the most relevant images.

Testimonials

“Lightly enabled us to improve our ML data pipeline in all regards: Selection, Efficiency, and Functionality. This allowed us to cut customer onboarding time by 50% while achieving better model performance.”

Harishma Dayanidhi

Co-Founder/ VP of Engineering

Scalable and Efficient Data Curation using Lightly

Lightly selects Voxel’s most relevant unlabeled data, utilizing its self-supervised learning framework. This allows Voxel to train its model for each customer more quickly while achieving even higher performance.

Lightly’s active learning feature and multi-factor querying functionality enhanced Voxel’s solutions performance. The integration of Lightly’s labeling tool supported Voxel in streamlining theirMLOps pipeline, increasing efficiency.

Results

In a nutshell, Voxel was able to (1) select the right data to train the model faster and better, (2) learn more about what additional data would enhance model performance, and (3) use this insight to increase their model performance. Thus allowing them to:

  • process over 50M images and done over 20 runs within six months using Lightly.
  • reduce the retraining process time by 50%
  • double their customer onboarding speed.
  • improve their model accuracy by 10%

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Testimonials

What engineers say after adopting Lightly

No fluff—just results from teams using Lightly to move faster with better data and models.

"We had millions of images but no clear way to prioritize. Manual selection was slow and full of guesswork. With Lightly, we just feed in the data and get back what’s actually worth labeling."

Carlos Alvarez
Machine Learning Engineer

"Through this collaboration, SDSC and Lightly have combined their expertise to revolutionize the process of frame selection in surgical videos, making it more efficient and accurate than ever before to find the best subset of frames for labeling and model training."

Margaux Masson-Forsythe
Director of Machine Learning

“By integrating Lightly into our existing workflow, we achieved a 90% reduction in dataset size and doubled the efficiency of our deployment process. The tool’s seamless implementation significantly enhanced our data pipeline.”

Usman Khan
Sr. Data Scientist

“Lightly gave us transparency to a part of the ML development that is a black box, data. Furthermore, Lightly enabled us to do Active Learning at scale and helped us improve recall and F1-score of our object detector by 32% and 10% compared to our previous data selection method. We finally saw the light in our data using Lightly.”

Gonzalo Urquieta
Project Leader

"Lightly is hyper-focused on finding thousands of relevant images from millions of video frames to improve deep learning models. The Lightly platform enabled us to build models and deploy features more than 2x faster and unlock completely new development workflows."

Isura Ranatunga
Co-Founder and CTO

"I was truly amazed once we received the results of Lightly. We knew we had a lot of similar images due to our video feed but the results showed us how we can work more efficiently by selecting the right data"

Alejandro Garcia
CEO

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