PITTSBURGH, Jan. 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UltronAI today announced the availability of the UltronAI platform, an AI-based computer vision engine built to power the next generation of product-centric retail solutions. With the general availability of the platform, UltronAI has begun to raise its seed round of funding, which follows the successful close of its previous, oversubscribed pre-seed round.
Designed explicitly to work in a high-volume, transactional environment, UltronAI harnesses innovation from decades of research to address unique retail challenges such as high-speed transactions, enormous (and constantly evolving) product catalogs, and variabilities in lighting and product placement. Retailers and retail solution providers can now use the UltronAI platform to develop scalable solutions around loss prevention, self-checkout, inventory, analytics, and more.
Product identification built for retail
As more retailers seek to capitalize on the promise of computer vision, widespread adoption in retail has been hindered by limitations on product catalog size, inconsistent store lighting conditions, user behavior, transactional speed, and cost. The UltronAI platform was built explicitly to overcome these challenges in the retail sector.
Specifically, UltronAI's technology has been calibrated to:
"The biggest challenge to adoption for computer vision-based product identification is taking it from the lab in small-scale tests to the streets in very large-scale database galleries," said Dr. Marios Savvides, Founder, Chairman, and CTO of UltronAI. "It's quite easy to recognize a product from a small gallery when positioned perfectly under bright lights. But correctly identifying an obscured product under poor lighting out of a database of hundreds of thousands of products is actually quite difficult. UltronAI is the outcome of two decades of AI research around object identification and robust, large-scale face recognition. We've purpose-built a platform that can support the volume, speed, and store conditions that a typical retailer needs to support."
Empowering a new generation of retail solutions
UltronAI's ability to perform accurately in large, complex, and fast-paced retail environments means that retailers and retail solution providers can envision scalable solutions to meet the retail industry's most challenging problems. Previously, such innovation might be hampered by the limitations of the computer vision engine, UltronAI can fuel new approaches to:
"Given the rapid pace of change required to adapt and thrive in today's market, retailers are working hard to incorporate transformative technologies into their businesses," said Stefanos Damianakis, CEO of UltronAI. "With the availability of UltronAI's product identification technology, retail innovators can reimagine how to build scalable and reliable solutions to combat shrinkage, improve customer experience, drive automation, and more."
UltronAI is in the early stages of deployment with a leading global retailer and an inventive retail automation solution provider. During the testing phase, UltronAI successfully ingested the retailer's 250,000+ product catalog in under 45 minutes, a stark contrast to the company's former system which took days to weeks to enroll products and hit system capacity in the low thousands. In addition, as part of a real-world, in-store pilot deployment, UltronAI achieved accuracy comparable to a human against the store's product catalog, despite variable lighting and positioning conditions.
About UltronAI
UltronAI is a retail AI innovator focused on delivering the industry's most accurate, scalable, and store-ready product identification engine available. The company's computer vision platform repurposes more than 20 years of rigorous academic and military-grade AI research on partial image recognition to achieve near human accuracy, even when faced with poor lighting, obscured products, and untrained users. Retailers and retail solution providers can embed UltronAI into solutions that address loss prevention, customer experience, automation, inventory management, and more. Learn more at ultronai.com
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