6 Companies Making Big Profits with Image Analysis AI (feat. Computer Vision AI)
We've all heard countless times that AI can look at an image and tell a dog from a cat. But we got curious about how it's used in business. We've put together a list of companies making big profits with image analysis AI features.
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Those who've wondered how to make use of image analysis AI
Those who were curious about how image analysis AI is actually being used
Here's how they were using image analysis AI.
It retouched photos taken by ordinary people to look like they were shot in a studio.
It checked whether a product was defective just by looking at the image.
It even logged calories simply from a photo of food.
6 companies that use image analysis AI
Cal AI
Bepro11
Socar
Photoroom
Landing AI
Alarmy
Let's take a look at them one by one.
Cal AI: Food recognition & calorie counting app
Service: An app where you upload a photo of your food and the AI calculates the calories. You can record what kinds of food you ate and how much. It's growing so fast that just six months after launch it reached monthly revenue of 900 million won.
Image analysis AI in use: When you take a photo, your phone's depth sensor figures out the amount of food. An AI model trained on thousands of food images distinguishes the food's parts and proportions. A multimodal AI model then aggregates all the information and produces the calories, protein, carbs, and fat of the meal.
Limitations: Because calories are calculated from a photo, there's a limitation that foods like smoothies or soup are inaccurately measured. In those cases, the user has to enter the information directly in the app.
Bepro11: Person recognition & sports match analysis
Service: A startup that helps with sports match analysis. It started with soccer.
Image analysis AI in use: It watches the recorded match footage and recognizes the players and the ball in real time. It analyzes the match in one go.
Socar: Recognizing vehicle damage and dirt
Image analysis AI in use: It looked at captured images and automatically determined whether dents or scratches had occurred. It also figured out whether a vehicle was dirty enough to need a wash. Socar was using AI image analysis technology to streamline its operations.
Photoroom: Removing & retouching backgrounds of online shop product photos
Service: A photo editing app for online shop operators who have to take countless product photos. It's growing fast—reaching 70 billion won in annual revenue just four years after founding.
Image analysis AI in use: The core feature is that the AI makes it easy to change a product's background. It doesn't stop at removing the background. You can choose the background you want. It even adds shadows, so it feels like the photo was originally shot against that background.
Landing AI: Checking factory defects (manufacturing)
Service: An AI company founded by Andrew Ng, a giant in the AI industry. It provides a platform for building image analysis models.
Image analysis AI in use: Let's say there's a manufacturing company that makes metal parts. It's important not to deliver defective products to customers. They automated, using AI, what people used to check one part at a time by eye. They installed cameras in the factory to photograph every part and detect whether any part has a defect.
Alarmy: Object recognition
Service: An alarm app where the alarm won't turn off until you complete a wake-up mission. Last year it was used by so many people that it achieved 24 billion won in annual revenue and 13.1 billion won in operating profit.
Image analysis AI in use: There's a mission where the alarm turns off when you photograph the same object every morning. The AI helps recognize it as the same object even at angles that inevitably vary slightly.
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