How to quickly grow a startup abroad without dealing with bureaucracy or competitions
Easy
2 min
Tutorial
When these funny (at least to us) girls walked away from our booth, the neighboring exhibitors immediately started saying how lucky we were.
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How to quickly grow a startup abroad without dealing with bureaucracy or competitions
Easy
2 min
Tutorial
When these funny (at least to us) girls walked away from our booth, the neighboring exhibitors immediately started saying how lucky we were.
Harmful acceleration: Smart traffic lights at overloaded intersections
Easy
5 min
Analytics
This article is for the IT specialists working in regional road authorities. Since your recommendations influence the development of transport infrastructure, let us discuss what is happening on our roads in the field of high technology!
This topic has become a real headache. Whenever a region allocates funds for an ITS (Intelligent Transport System), everyone wants to install smart solutions at the busiest intersections in the city center. SpesLab constantly receives requests about this, and we are already tired of explaining that it is a bad idea.
New technology eliminates enormous maintenance and operating costs — but what should be done with all the old equipment?
Easy
2 min
Review
Progress constantly faces a problem: new technologies are not always profitable to introduce. Or rather, progress hits this problem and stops.
What camera form-factor should you choose?
2 min
This is a question asked by every second customer who comes to us for a video surveillance system. Everyone has their own preferences, so this is simply SpesLab’s personal view.
Arrow neural network: Fire extinguishing equipment no longer needs to be checked
2 min
Case
Every day, every single day, devices in fire suppression systems need to be checked! When these are enormous warehouses spread across vast territories, a security guard has to constantly walk around and inspect all of them — just for this one task. The pressure gauge has become a symbol of punishment in fire safety authorities.
Millions of analog sensors are also used in gas and water distribution systems, as well as in many other industries.
The keyboard also has its own handwriting
Easy
2 min
Case
Even among the dots and dashes, you can recognize the hand of a radio operator. And by the style of typing on a computer keyboard, it has become possible to determine the author of the text with almost 100% accuracy.
As a result, we get another sign of identification and authorization.
SpesLab-Gambit: a convenient neural network object annotation program for video surveillance systems
Easy
3 min
Tutorial
Developers of smart cameras, smart DVRs, and neural-network video analytics for surveillance systems need AI models capable of operating in real-world street conditions. Out there, nobody walks around with professional cameras, carefully adjusts angles, sets up lighting, records without compression, or follows the common sense taught in cinematography textbooks.
Of course, Gambit can be used for many other tasks, but its main focus is the convenient collection of material FROM video surveillance systems and dataset annotation specifically FOR video surveillance neural networks.
Gambit is not designed for polished photos and Internet reels. Quite the opposite — it is intended for low-quality surveillance archive footage. At SpesLab, we call this kind of content “wild.”
Neural Prompter
2 min
Case
We are all fascinated by the ability of AI to describe what is happening in front of a video camera, but so far we have not seen anyone answer the question — why? Is there at least one truly practical use case?
At SpecLab, however, we came up with our own application...
Why do right-handed and left-handed people exist? Why did god create us with non-equivalent limbs?
Easy
2 min
Opinion
By diving deeper into robotics, we keep discovering more and more about human beings. Apparently, God designed us in much the same way
Neural networks in reality
2 min
Recovery Mode
The mass of news and articles about artificial intelligence creates the illusion that we are living in a fantastic time. But when you start asking everyone what exactly is useful in real life from these high technologies, the answers come down to some Google features, mobile games and a story about Chinese videos. By the way, oh, these Chinese videos — for some reason, they are constantly shown by the central mass media when they demonstrate Moscow's intellectual technologies.
In words, it seems, all the «intellects» are installed already everywhere, the whole country has long been transferred to neural networks, but only in some kind of demonstration pictures, in diagrams, on fingers. There is a mental dissonance — why not take a video camera and shoot at least a fragment of how Russia's super mega technologies work?
As Nikita Sergeevich said, «science ceases to be self-indulgence when its fruits are applied in the national economy.» And today's artificial intelligence is familiar to us only from games. Many people really want to see something useful in reality. Therefore, we were not too lazy and recorded our video of the operation of neural networks from real objects.
In words, it seems, all the «intellects» are installed already everywhere, the whole country has long been transferred to neural networks, but only in some kind of demonstration pictures, in diagrams, on fingers. There is a mental dissonance — why not take a video camera and shoot at least a fragment of how Russia's super mega technologies work?
As Nikita Sergeevich said, «science ceases to be self-indulgence when its fruits are applied in the national economy.» And today's artificial intelligence is familiar to us only from games. Many people really want to see something useful in reality. Therefore, we were not too lazy and recorded our video of the operation of neural networks from real objects.
The Project «Fabula»: How to find the desired video-fragment or person in a pile of video files?
2 min
If a person is far over 20, then he has already accumulated a huge film library of his life, as well as videos from friends, relatives, and from his place of work… It is no longer possible to find someone or something specific there. Recently, I was preparing a video compilation for my daughter's anniversary – I spent a week. The media is all the more overloaded with video archives. And every day, millions of terabytes of video content appear in the world. And this is in the era of BIG DATA.
