Recently, the 84th journal of Xinning Business published a special report titled "Ningxin Cohesion to Create the Future - Nanjing Private Enterprises Light up a New Pattern of High Quality Economic Development with Future Industries", titled "Artificial Intelligence Starts a New Visual World". Minivision Technology, as a representative enterprise of artificial intelligence in Jiangsu Province, was reported. The following is the original text of the article.
Minivision Technology (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. focuses on computer vision technology, enabling machines to "go from recognizing people and things to recognizing everything", empowering digital cities, digital industries, and digital life.
If a can falls from a window on the 22nd floor, how can we detect the danger in the first place and avoid the serious consequences of injuring people? If someone is unfortunately injured as a result, how can we efficiently find the responsible person? This question may not be answered by most people, but for Minivision Technology (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Minivision Technology"), it is simple: using AI visual algorithms, the problem can be easily solved.Machine vision can recognize people and things, and in this area, Minivision Technology has never given up. "Duan Weizhi, Vice President of Minivision Technology, is full of confidence.
Let the machine have the "Flame Eye Golden Clear"
Just because I glanced at you in the crowd, I can't forget your face anymore. This song is perfect for describing Minivision Technology.
For humans, 70% to 80% of information acquisition comes from vision. For artificial intelligence, computer vision is also considered the most valuable AI technology currently. It can enable machines to have the ability to 'recognize people and things to everything', thereby understanding and understanding the world, and helping us improve the efficiency of information processing in production and work.
Simply put, what Minivision Technology is currently doing is researching how to make machines "see" and "understand". Using cameras and computers to replace the human eye for feature extraction and analysis of images, and training the model accordingly, enabling it to complete new tasks such as image data detection and recognition, and establishing an artificial intelligence system that can obtain "information" from images or multimodal data. Computer vision, as a key core technology for achieving industrial digitization and intelligence, is becoming the fastest-growing branch of artificial intelligence, widely used in financial certification, public safety, livelihood and economy, etc.
Minivision Technology, founded in Nanjing in 2015, is only 8 years old now, but in the field of AI recognition, it has already ranked first in Jiangsu and even in the country.
Minivision Technology now provides digital services for scenarios such as digital cities (smart cities, communities, campuses, construction sites, parks), digital industries (intelligent manufacturing), and digital life (internet industry), covering 20 provinces and 43 cities across the country. "In Duan Weizhi's words, Xiaoshi Technology's job is to equip machines with" smart brains "and develop the ability to be" eye-catching ".
In the field of digital cities, Minivision Technology can conduct crowd analysis, targeting and screening target populations through cameras on thousands of roads in the city. If debris is dumped late at night, Xiaoshi Technology can achieve real-time alarm, from discovering problems to solving them. Minivision Technology reduces the security response speed from the past hour level to the second level, and the security efficiency of the city increases rapidly; In the field of digital life, Xiaoshi Technology can provide safer and more convenient experiences such as facial unlocking and facial payment. Taking Nanjing as an example, the "My Nanjing" app for facial authentication and the management of thousands of smart community technical prevention communities in Jiangsu are all supported by Minivision Technology.
In coal coking enterprises, Minivision Technology plays a role as an "X-ray machine". Coal coking enterprises face three major safety production challenges: the safety production awareness of frontline workers needs to be improved; The safety supervision in production operations needs to be strengthened; The intelligent application of video surveillance, especially the application of intelligent identification in safety production risk prevention and safety review, needs to be improved. And Minivision Technology's artificial intelligence vision can achieve the management of the identity and production behavior of special practitioners, such as personnel monitoring, key personnel deployment, intelligent point inspection, trajectory analysis and judgment, and identification of various violations. Taking a large coal mining enterprise as an example, Minivision Technology monitors scenes on and off the mine, replacing traditional human supervision in repetitive production operations to reduce costs and increase efficiency in production.
Bringing "Wisdom" into People's Livelihood
In the past two years, with the interconnection of technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, and deep learning, the performance advantages of machine vision have continuously improved, and its application fields have extended to multiple dimensions. As an innovative research and development enterprise focused on building a smart visual full scene ecosystem, Minivision Technology has a clear goal of cultivating segmented scenes in order to gain greater market competitiveness.
Taking the smart community as an example, Minivision Technology has made great efforts in "understanding" this matter. Xiaoshi Technology has released more than 30 original visual algorithms around smart community scenarios, covering almost all aspects of community management, such as analysis and detection of behaviors such as fire occupation, pet recognition, electric vehicle entry into buildings, garbage detection, smoke and smoke, residue detection, elderly falls, and long-term absence. In response to key demands such as community safety management, property operations, and resident services, Minivision Technology provides AI based visual technology capabilities, allowing cameras to truly "understand" and actively empower refined community management.
We need to achieve real-time collection, analysis, and judgment of front-end intelligent perception data through the comprehensive application of technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, and behavior analysis. By improving the layout of intelligent transportation facilities such as facial recognition, vehicle recognition, and visual intercom, we can achieve automated registration management of 'people taking photos and vehicles leaving marks', and achieve automatic door opening and fast vehicle passing without stopping by residents, "said Duan Weizhi, For communities equipped with Minivision products, convenient, efficient, and intelligent new modes of transportation are becoming the new norm of community residents' lives.
The deep cultivation of technology has made Minivision Technology recognized both domestically and internationally. In recent years, Minivision Technology has won the double track championships of MOT 17 and MOT-HT21 in the multi-objective tracking MOT international competition, and has won honors such as the world's second place in the NIST International Face Recognition Competition FRVT open scene, the national level specialized and refined new Little Giant, the Jiangsu Provincial Computer Vision Engineering Research Center, and the first prize of the Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Award. The product system has passed the Xinchuang Adaptation Certification and CMMI5 Certification, and has been selected as one of the first members of the "Trusted Facial Application Guardian Program".
Make 'the coexistence of reality and emptiness' a reality
After several years of hard work, Xiaoshi Technology has accumulated six major categories of algorithms, with a total of nearly 300 core technology patents and software patents. Among them, there are over 90 patents for vision related algorithms, possessing strong technological "soft power".
Duan Weizhi candidly stated: Unlike other AI companies that are obsessed with big and comprehensive platforms, Minivision Technology focuses on deep exploration and extension of vertical scenes. In the future, AI is not the protagonist, the scene is, and must go deep into the scene. The first half of AI is driven by technology, while the second half is driven by the scene. At present, everything we solve is hidden under the big AI, and we need to carefully explore and solve the common needs. With the development of society in the future, we will pay more attention to urban experience, moving towards experiential The development of an interactive digital world.
Whether it's the current hot topic on the internet or the emergence of industry plans in various regions, the metaverse industry is becoming the most popular vocabulary and crowded track, with related concepts emerging endlessly, such as AIGC (artificial intelligence algorithm creates content value) or digital people. As one of the core technologies in the infrastructure of the metaverse, computer vision is like a "hammer" that breaks boundaries, allowing us to shuttle between reality and virtuality, achieving a "virtual reality symbiosis".
We have launched a cartoon based algorithm for portraits to replace artists in creating cartoon headlines for users. The daily click through volume exceeded 100000 people in the first time. Subsequently, we put this technology into the open source community and gained 3500 stars, quickly becoming a star product. "Duan Weizhi said," This is one of the achievements of Xiaoshi Technology's initial entry into the AIGC field, and we are actively entering the metaverse to create digital human products.
In fact, AIGC utilizes artificial intelligence technology to automatically produce content, including text, images, audio, video, code, and more. Taking the recently popular chat robot ChatGPT as an example, this robot launched by a laboratory in the United States can write papers, novels, and code. It has been online for only two months and has a monthly active user base of 100 million. Due to its unexpected intelligence, AIGC is considered the "next disruptive force in the technology industry" and a major revolution in content productivity.
With the advent of the AIGC era, the public is experiencing a new era of accelerated scientific and technological change.Unlike ChatGPT, which solves the production of text content, Xiaoshi Technology is committed to AIGC in the video field, and the "small trial ox knife" of commercial products has the effect of "showing off muscles". Currently, Xiaoshi Technology is conducting in-depth research in the metaverse and digital human fields, and new products are about to be released.
Duan Weizhi said: As an emerging field that highly relies on cutting-edge technological breakthroughs, the gap has not yet been widened through commercialization, especially in the metaverse field, which is in the stage of application exploration and still needs a long time to cultivate, and has not yet formed a leading monopoly effect. As a production tool, artificial intelligence and metaverse need to create value in solving specific problems in various industries, which is a vast blue ocean that requires practitioners to patiently invest in for a longer time
At present, Minivision Technology has over a thousand cooperative units, including Huawei, operators, well-known industry leaders, and multiple government units. AI products and services benefit community livelihoods, smart city construction, industrial digital transformation and upgrading, and other fields.
In the next 3-5 years, we hope that the company can use AI to support the development of digital economy in more cities across the country, "said Duan Weizhi.
Reporter Cheng Cheng
Xinning Business, Issue 84, 25th Edition
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