tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18949218445743088452024-03-05T16:08:18.089+05:30Integration Wizards BlogAI, Computer Vision, Integration technologies, Machine learning, Enterprise MobilityIntegration Wizards Solutions Pvt Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374902471841863833noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894921844574308845.post-9001585041007718992020-08-21T21:27:00.011+05:302020-08-21T21:37:17.990+05:30So I heard you can do Computer Vision at 30FPS; I can do 1000.<span style="font-family: arial;">- Akash James<br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNjWptVXnfDde4Ygk5T_UUrVTDj4nzlG3CqMJuZrw6B1KRLqciiPqek0vRvjJ05e5eegG7Se-Y19Wn8yRIlnTFuuLBGqahOKLpsea4e8xXoTH2qK84nG_hiFBtSeQ6sEDZ3xYB3bEWb8Gw/s1920/1*F3nJqQIewydye1Swuj8cpQ.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNjWptVXnfDde4Ygk5T_UUrVTDj4nzlG3CqMJuZrw6B1KRLqciiPqek0vRvjJ05e5eegG7Se-Y19Wn8yRIlnTFuuLBGqahOKLpsea4e8xXoTH2qK84nG_hiFBtSeQ6sEDZ3xYB3bEWb8Gw/s640/1*F3nJqQIewydye1Swuj8cpQ.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">And there was a man, in a cave, held captive and hooked up to an electromagnet plunged deep in his chest. Hammering his way through, quite literally, Stark, built his initial Arc Reactor and Mark 1 Iron Man suit, using nothing but a bucket of scrap and modern, tactical, self-guiding, explosive payload-carrying arrows, ergo missiles. Over-did it, didn’t I? Mesmerizing to most, the primitive propulsion system for un-guided flight and rudimentary weapons were not striking to engineers like us.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Stark kept going on, adding new capabilities to his armour, reaching peak performance with the Model Prime and finally calling it a day with the Mark 85. (More like Captain Marvel blasted him in Civil War 2 or the Gauntlet irradiated him, based on the cinematic or comic universe you prefer).<br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Just like arguably the best science-fiction-based inventor, I never stop with my creations and continue over-hauling for higher performance, ’cause I know that there will always be a higher ascension level to reach.<br /><br />Computer Vision is a field with rapid progress; new techniques and higher accuracy coming out from various developers across the planet. Machines now have human-like perception capabilities, thanks to Deep Learning; with the ability to not only understand and derive information from digital image media but also create images from scratch with nothing but 0’s and 1's.<br /><br /></span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">How did it begin?</span></h4><span style="font-family: arial;">Time and again, the higher tech-deities bring me at a point in this space-time continuum where I am faced with a conundrum. My team and I, back in our final year of college, were building a smart wearable for people with impaired vision, an AI-enabled extension of sorts to help the user with recognizing objects, recognizing people, and performing Optical Character Recognition; we called it Oculus. In all honesty, we did not rip it off from Facebook’s, Oculus Rift VR Headset and it was purely coincidental. The AI Engine was comprised of a multitude of classifiers, object detectors and image captioning neural networks running with TensorFlow and Python. With my simpleton knowledge of writing optimized code, everything was stacked sequentially, not allowing us to derive results in real-time, which was an absolute necessity of our wearable. Merely by running the entire stack on the GPU and using concurrent processes, I was able to achieve 30fps and derive real-time results.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Thus, this began my journey of being fast — real fast.<br /><br /></span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ratcheting my way through</span></h4><span style="font-family: arial;">Fast forward two years to the present, I currently work as an AI Architect at Integration Wizards. My work predominantly revolves around creating a digital manifestation of the architecture I come up with for our flagship product — <a href="https://iwizardsolutions.com/iris/" target="_blank">IRIS</a>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Wondering what exactly IRIS does? (being Deadpool and breaking the 4th wall) To give you a gist, IRIS is a Computer Vision platform which provides our customers with the ability to quickly deploy solutions that monitor and detect violations. People counting and tracking with demographics, adherence to safety gear usage, person utilization, detection of fire, automatic number plate recognition and document text extraction are some of the features that come out-of-the-box. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Typically, IRIS plugs into existing CCTV networks, rendering previously non-smart recording networks into real-time analytical entities. IRIS uses Deep Learning for it’s AI Engine but the architecture of the pipeline and the neural networks has seen many changes. My first notable architecture involved web technologies, like Flask and Gunicorn, to create APIs, that my worker threads could utilize. This ensured that the GPU was utilized in a better manner. However, this turned out to be moot when a large number of streams were to be processed.<br /><br />The two primary hindrances were the API based architecture being a bottleneck under higher loads and the Object detection neural networks being heavy. For this, I needed something better, a better queue and processing architecture along with faster neural nets. Googling and surfing Reddit for a couple of days, I came across Apache Kafka, a publisher-subscriber message queue that is used for high data traffic. We retro-fit the architecture to push several thousand images per second from the CCTVs to the neural networks to achieve our analytical information. We devised another object detection model that was anchor-less and ran faster while retaining performance. Of course, the benchmark was against the infamous COCO dataset. <br />This increased our processing capability close to 200 fps on a single GPU.<br /><br /></span><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Turning point</span></h4><span style="font-family: arial;">Yes, you guessed it, I didn’t stop there. I knew that there was much more fire-power I could get; accessible but hidden in the trenches of Tensor cores and C++ (such a spoiler). The deities were calling me and my urge to find something better kept me burning the midnight fuel. And then, the pandemic happened.</span><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1229" data-original-width="2048" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAOu7IAfunQ1L2JQ0roq4wTcJ3Ouz8Nl3bClI856FHROWowNP6JAgcPnFMb8Dj-vZgPwktaChKaQhSfO79HuFkfpAI1tcg-aSS0MWER3tIHJ3mmqg9MKsV_tinFiq-F9BCy7AH9_GlIQN9/w400-h243/3848189.jpg" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">WHO declared <a href="https://iwizardsolutions.com/covid19/" target="_blank">COVID-19</a> a global emergency — it ravaged through multiple countries and fear was being pushed down people’s throats; most offices transitioned into an indefinite work-from-home status and India imposed the world’s largest lockdown. Wearing masks and Social distancing was the new norm and everybody feared another Spanish flu of the 1900s. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">As an organization, we work with AI to be an extension of man, helping the human race to be better. Usage of face masks and social distancing needed enforcement and what better way to do it than with AI? Our stars aligned, the goals matched and we knew what we needed to build. The solution had to be light-weight and fast enough to run on low-end hardware or run on large HPC machines to analyze hundreds of CCTV cameras at once. For this, we needed an efficient pipeline and highly optimized models.</span><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hitting 1000 with Mask Detection and Social Distancing Enforcement</span></h3><span style="font-family: arial;">By now, I had a few tricks up my sleeve. IRIS’ pipeline now harnesses elements of GStreamer, which is an open-source, highly optimized, image/video media processing tool. TensorRT is something we used to speed up our neural networks on NVIDIA’s GPUs to properly utilize every ounce of performance we could push out. The entire pipeline is written with C++ with CUDA enabled code to parallelize operations. Finally, light-weight models — the person detector uses a smaller ResNet-like backbone and our Face Detector is just 999 kilobytes in size with a 95% result on the WiderFace dataset. Our person detector and Face Detector are INT8 and FP16 quantized making them much faster. With quantization and entire processing pipeline running on the GPU, amalgamating these together, IRIS’ new and shiny COVID-19 Enforcer ran at 1000 fps at peak performance for Social Distancing and 800fps for both Social Distancing and Mask Detection.</span><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">This allows us to deploy IRIS on smaller embedded devices to provide a cost-effective solution for retail-chains and stand-alone stores while letting us utilize multi-GPU setups to run on warehouses, shopping malls and city-wide CCTV networks making it easier to comply with and deny the spread of infection.</span></div><div><div><br /></div></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So what’s next?</span></h4><span style="font-family: arial;">I am not done. Achieving one milestone allows me to mark a bigger and better goal. Artificial Intelligence is in its infancy and being at the forefront of making it commercially viable and available in all markets, especially India has been mine and my organization’s vision. The endgame is to have AI for all, where people, be it developers or business-owners, have the ability to quickly design and deploy their own pipelines. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://iwizardsolutions.com" target="_blank">IRIS</a> aims at being a platform to precisely empower individuals with that, with the intention to democratize Artificial Intelligence, making it not a luxury for the few, rather a commodity for all. </span></div><div></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Chiselling AI agents to be the best tool that man has ever known will be our goal, paving the future with a legion of Intelligent agents, not making the world cold, but making us a smarter race. Ain’t nobody creating Ultron!</span><br /></div></div></div>Integration Wizards Solutions Pvt Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374902471841863833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894921844574308845.post-47728064275363967912020-07-02T17:16:00.004+05:302020-07-07T11:39:26.346+05:30Enhancing Workplace Health & Safety Using Computer Vision<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;">Although health and safety at workplaces have improved over the years, yet the UK continues to have a large number of workplace accidents. The number of accidents resulting in injury, or in some cases, even death is quite high. Many of these accidents can be avoided, and AI-based computer vision can play a significant role in cutting down these accidents. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;">Health and Safety Statistics. Key figures for Great Britain (2018/19)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>1.4 million</i> working people suffering from a work-related illness<b style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>2,526</i> mesothelioma deaths due to past asbestos exposures (2017)<b style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>147 </i>workers killed at work<b style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>581,000 </i>working people sustaining an injury at work according to the Labour Force Survey<b style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>69,208</i> injuries to employees reported under RIDDOR<b style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>28.2 million</i> working days lost due to work-related illness and workplace injury<b style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i>£15 billion</i> estimated costs of injuries and ill health from current working conditions (2017/18)</span><b style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.5;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;">( Source:<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1101522415"> </a><b style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/">https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/</a></span> </span></b>)<b style="line-height: 1.5;"><br /></b>Forklifts alone account for 1,300 UK employees being hospitalised each year <i style="line-height: 1.5;">(That’s 5 UK workers each workday!)</i> with serious injuries due to these accidents. Unfortunately, that number is rising as there is a significant growth in e-commerce and warehouses across the UK. <b style="line-height: 1.5;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;">Use of AI-based computer vision for optimising workplace health and safety in the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Our Computer Vision product, </span><b style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;"><a href="https://www.iwizardsolutions.com/iris/" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5;">IRIS</span></a></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">, is an AI-based computer vision solution to track and predict wo</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">rkplace accidents and then prevent them from happening. The existing use cases include:<b style="line-height: 1.5;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Fork Lift Safety, Predicting and Prevention of Fork Lift accidents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Use of Lifting Equipment<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Manual Handling<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Monitoring near misses and reporting near misses & accidents in real-time<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Monitoring Use of PPE</span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 1.5;">IRIS is an enterprise computer vision solution. The product is currently deployed at many customer sites including Fortune 500 companies. The AI solution sits on the top of existing CCTV infrastructure. It is very cost-effective and can be deployed quickly either at a customer site or through the cloud. </span></div>
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Integration Wizards Solutions Pvt Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374902471841863833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894921844574308845.post-55449567613578347832020-06-22T17:30:00.001+05:302020-06-22T18:22:29.908+05:30Covid-19 isn’t going away soon…… What’s your plan to make YOUR team safe in the workplace?<div class="separator"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="0" width="7"></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><span style="color: #9e9e9e; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Thankfully Covid-19 seems to be on the wane…. But it will take a long time to disappear fully, and it is unlikely to be the last pandemic. This means that YOU may need to make the workplace safe for your team and perhaps your customers.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="3"></font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="3"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgli9ifNn0ukCbqZ0ShVFIh6zT_4S8tzhBvhU1BO6Y5DlquYt5CxyjHzhOV2EnQjBXFNN-SJBm4HmXavKTihDXjTyal4xNUDEJ_ao5qkfKKnPEHp-ITgexAQ8EjpIVaqQGxrj6hqPWqLQ/s854/Covid+iwizard+pic.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="854" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgli9ifNn0ukCbqZ0ShVFIh6zT_4S8tzhBvhU1BO6Y5DlquYt5CxyjHzhOV2EnQjBXFNN-SJBm4HmXavKTihDXjTyal4xNUDEJ_ao5qkfKKnPEHp-ITgexAQ8EjpIVaqQGxrj6hqPWqLQ/w500-h286/Covid+iwizard+pic.png" width="500" /></a></font></div><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="3">The good news is that many organisations have successfully implemented a Work-From-Home strategy….. And perhaps it has been much easier than we had dreamed it could be – certainly full or part-time WFH will now be a real option for many office workers.<o:p></o:p></font><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="3">The bad news is that solving the problem for workers who MUST be in their workplace is much, much harder.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="3">Thankfully there ARE tools and solutions (automated Artificial Intelligence) that can help.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"><font color="#9e9e9e" face="arial" size="3">Solving the problem falls into several areas</font></p><ul><li><span style="color: #9e9e9e; font-family: arial; text-indent: -18pt;">Supplying / enforcing use of PPE</span></li><li><span style="color: #9e9e9e; 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</style>Jim Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08128134686062442918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894921844574308845.post-63906520209566492702020-06-22T15:38:00.001+05:302020-06-22T15:40:56.411+05:30The Next Big thing: Post COVID-19 Workplaces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font size="2">- Apoorva Verma</font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ1G1xKKtneSAFKmitNwuTAbbueg4ibGFN96LuJr4l-P3Yeow6tOe-AYR9KrQtVauqAKA-ceN6-jlZIuos6aa7EIO44I0yBZr_DvsYaN2MWI02azy5GLFOXEuDdKO0CaX3yJ6HsHsn8G0t/s4896/4373.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="4896" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ1G1xKKtneSAFKmitNwuTAbbueg4ibGFN96LuJr4l-P3Yeow6tOe-AYR9KrQtVauqAKA-ceN6-jlZIuos6aa7EIO44I0yBZr_DvsYaN2MWI02azy5GLFOXEuDdKO0CaX3yJ6HsHsn8G0t/w400-h266/4373.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><font size="1">Pic: Freepik</font></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">The economy cannot survive a lockdown mode forever and the vaccine for COVID-19 may take years to develop and market, ‘unlock 1.0’ had become the necessary evil. This puts the responsibility on organizations, irrespective of their size, to focus on making the workplace safer for employees. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="">This pandemic has changed the fundamental aspects of professional lives — from the daily commute to work environment to interactions amongst colleagues and peers. Hygiene and safety concerns are here to stay and will probably remain for at least a year from now or even more. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="">Consequently, businesses are re-accessing their business models and working on best practices to follow on restarting operations. Thus, they are looking at:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="">1. Ensuring compliance: what will be the best practices for floor management in a post-COVID-19 workplace? Face masks, sanitizer, gloves, and face shields are the new survival kits. Social distancing is being jacked up and automation solutions have seen a jump owing to the difficulty in ensuring these social distancing norms. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="">2. Hygiene: Can they deploy contactless technology wherever possible and emphasize on frequent sanitization in high-touch places?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="">3. Accelerated technology adoption: Each sector has different requirements and use of advanced technologies such as AI and IIOT can help manage operations better. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="">Returning back to work will require efforts and everyone needs to be vigilant. The world is at a stage where people can’t afford to be lackadaisical in their approach. Organisations are looking for long-term solutions to enforce safety compliance, especially in workplace environments where thousands work together. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="">Computer vision technology solution trained for detecting compliance such as <a href="https://iwizardsolutions.com/covid19/" target="_blank">IRIS AI</a>, by Integration Wizards, is ensuring face mask and social distancing compliance for organisations. It works on any existing CCTV network and identifies cases of social distancing or face mask violations and sends real-time alerts to the relevant authority. A dashboard provides detailed analytics for a given time period. In addition, using face recognition technology, their newly launched attendance app – LogMyFace, is a contactless attendance solution. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="">Change is perpetual. But sometimes, it is the only option. As the world around us is changing, it has provided us with a new canvas. It is time to paint a new picture. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang=""><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang=""><a href="https://iwizardsolutions.com/contact/" target="_blank">Get in touch to discover the best compliance solution for your business.</a> </span></p>Integration Wizards Solutions Pvt Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374902471841863833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894921844574308845.post-68864354968431629032020-05-11T14:51:00.002+05:302020-06-19T12:43:48.335+05:30Competing in the Age of AI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>-Apoorva Verma</i></div>
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<b>How machine intelligence is changing the rules of business and what should companies do to stay on top? </b></h3>
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that makes it possible for machines to learn from experience, adjust to new inputs and perform human-like tasks.<br />
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According to IDC, <i>companies are forecast to spend $98 billion on AI, globally in 2023</i>. This stems from the fact that more and more businesses continue to invest in projects that utilise the capabilities of AI software and platforms. For example, most companies have turned to chatbots or automated customer service agents for their customer services.<br />
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In the current scenario, the world is grappling with a global pandemic, the COVID-19. This has forced most of the countries into lockdown and changed the way businesses function. The role of AI has now become more important than ever.<br />
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We are in a phase where AI is realising its potential in achieving human-like capabilities, so isn’t it time to question the business leaders on how they can harness the strength of man and machine.</blockquote>
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With technologies such as deep learning, IoT, computer vision and language processing, machines have learnt how to speak, read, text, identify patterns, and so much more. As this field precipitates more into commonly manual activities, for example, the use of AI to combat the corona pandemic in many countries such as training the AI to recognise a positive case using the Chest X-Ray or using drone cameras for thermal screenings. <br />
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Rather than scrapping the traditional methods of competitive advantage, AI reframes them in such a manner that companies can get a dynamic view of their strengths. For example, the health and safety of company employees were traditionally dependent on manual hours of patrolling security, it then moved to long hours of video feed monitoring from multiple cameras. However, humans are prone to error due to fatigue or negligence.<br />
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So, how can this be reimagined by AI?<br />
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<li><i>Data:</i> AI can harness data at a much faster rate and directly from users. </li>
<li><i>Automation:</i> Algorithms learn from data and experience. This allows us to train them for any security breaches as well as to explore new opportunities that may not be possible manually.</li>
<li><i>Decision Making:</i> AI increases the rate and quality of decision making as the number of inputs and the speed of processing for machines can be millions of times higher than for humans. </li>
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Thus, AI can make lives safer and help employers gain insights on those areas that may have been opaque to them before. <a href="http://iwizardsolutions.com/" target="_blank">Our computer vision solution, IRIS AI </a>is certainly changing lives and supporting business restart their operations.</div>
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In this AI-enabled world, it is almost imperative for companies to embrace AI to achieve a competitive edge. Companies need to identify what machines can do better than humans and vice versa, and then develop complementary roles and responsibilities for each, and redesign processes accordingly.</div>
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How do we stop a global pandemic which has infected over 3.6 million and claimed more than 250000 lives? </div>
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As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise, wearing masks and gloves, frequent hand sanitization, social distancing, and early identification of infected people are crucial in curbing further spread of COVID-19.<br />
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However, the biggest challenge that is faced by organizations is to enforce and ensure strict compliance with these measures. Especially at a time when the number of cases is on a surge each day, non-compliance due to human negligence and fatigue can cost us greatly.<br />
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To put it in words, “we are our worst enemies” during the COVID-19 pandemic.<br />
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This is where technology such as computer vision can be highly impactful. IRIS AI, a flagship product by <a href="http://iwizardsolutions.com/" target="_blank">Integration Wizards Solutions</a> can transform your passive CCTV cameras into active analytical tools.<br />
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The computer vision technology can keep your employees and premises safe by ensuring the use of masks and gloves by people, social distancing compliance, and early sensing of fever using thermal cameras.<br />
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With the majority of countries in a lockdown, business continuity is another key challenge being faced by companies across the globe. However, it is also critical to get the operations re-started to get the economy back up.<br />
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So, for those looking for an effective mechanism of ensuring more than 99% compliance without any infrastructure overhaul, implementing IRIS computer vision can help.<br />
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In these challenging times for communities across the globe, technology and innovation could be the key in this fight against COVID-19.</div>
Integration Wizards Solutions Pvt Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374902471841863833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894921844574308845.post-24757414084573512372020-03-08T14:08:00.002+05:302020-06-18T14:10:05.319+05:30Happy women's day to our nerds, geeks and genius coders<p style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><font face="inherit">What image comes to your mind when you think ‘Geek’, ‘Nerd’ or ‘Genius Coder’?</font></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRwrftBtFJUPEnNuJzuArsZRteFRiTW7eKjYXMo70WJabAlgrQe_2Mwnak3JK1O5xe4KuMoQxqCYZI_3B1ubfYiaiRa7hdrknln_woxAaCm6_VLezODb1a0n7xKJhk2wIPLa3j9E74wqc/s1546/Screenshot+2020-06-18+at+2.06.25+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1546" data-original-width="1160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIRwrftBtFJUPEnNuJzuArsZRteFRiTW7eKjYXMo70WJabAlgrQe_2Mwnak3JK1O5xe4KuMoQxqCYZI_3B1ubfYiaiRa7hdrknln_woxAaCm6_VLezODb1a0n7xKJhk2wIPLa3j9E74wqc/w300-h400/Screenshot+2020-06-18+at+2.06.25+PM.png" width="300" /></a></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; margin: 6px 0px;"><font face="inherit"><br /></font></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; margin: 6px 0px;"><font face="inherit">The bespectacled guy with spiky hair is passé, here is what the geeks at Integration Wizards also look like. Women who are as good at applying make-up as they are at training the algorithm for intruder detection or detecting a bug in a thousand line code. </font></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; margin: 6px 0px;"><font face="inherit"><br /></font></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; margin: 6px 0px;"><font face="inherit">Integration Wizards prides itself for creating an inclusive workplace where meritocracy rules. We function without any bias at every step - fai<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">r hiring process, promotions based on performance, onsite visits as per project requirements, leadership opportunities, it is all earned by the deserving employee. </span></font></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; margin: 6px 0px;"><font face="inherit"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br /></span></font></p><div class="text_exposed_show" style="caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; display: inline;"><font face="inherit"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px;">Women’s day started being celebrated in the early 1900s to respect and honour the work that women do. The theme for International Women's Day2020 is <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/eachforequal?__eep__=6&source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCOfvFT5HiqRXtmCTVUPZGseRpAnlXIfzkxlvxJy4IGJecF3Ocu0yIGegr2ixnn42gkUu-TU5V_c1LsU2vxN6acq4_3f1KRQ5zv6FAE7FHlaTk7z1GMCqcJ5V9yUak3GHu3mSbVXhKAQWO9pcPiypo1ooIA8hZLwFZoB0VS1ATX7aQbYzLlkIfx2tLP8aQh4GIv11DQOmSzAPdpwg2y5oxb3LmDPsq8_Ik9Viooz0srGmi_m90dniSjjebJFAFGDGixLeZpTiMc5G8gg0RO5gfOAoNlio3p1gz4C1bkUdxwwGl3kK-dL1nvZctk_PIM6F_KK4s7TVxNDGnYTVk1aJCP-g&__tn__=%2ANK-R" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #365899; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm">EachforEqual</span></span></a> to celebrate a world where women constantly challenge bias, stereotypes, and are achievers at every front. That just about sounds like the profile of any woman working at Integration Wizards. Our phenomenal women talk about what Women’s day means to them. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;">This is what an inclusive workplace looks like. Ours. <br />Happy Women’s Day.</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="margin: 6px 0px;"><br /></p></font></div>Puja Upadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461546606680278574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894921844574308845.post-65951887242038975202020-01-21T14:01:00.000+05:302020-05-14T17:28:44.954+05:30What you need to know before bootstrapping your company?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Starting a firm is one of the most planned decisions that one can make in their lifetime. In fact, the founder(s) have so much on stake that they look at all sorts of possibilities - including that of failure. Thus, building something on their own requires practicality, technical expertise and management knowledge in addition to the funds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Here are some tips on bootstrapping your own business by co-founders of <a href="http://iwizardsolutions.com/" target="_blank">Integration Wizards Solutions</a>, an Indian startup that’s purely bootstrapped and profitable since its first day! </span><span style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Founded by Kunal Kislay, Saquib Khan, and Kumar Raman in 2014, its unique products are deployed by a global clientele including eight Fortune 500 companies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">According to research published in the Entrepreneur, business knowledge with necessary technical expertise in product development is very important for starting any business. However, "The best approach to achieve this is to get the right co-founders," says Kunal. He further adds, "As your partners, they play a key role in taking the organisation in the right direction by bringing their expertise, be it management or technical as well as contributing on various aspects of work and finances as and when necessary, especially if you are self-funded." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“While the lessons learnt along the way are priceless, one of the key lessons this journey teaches is the financial planning,” says Saquib. He adds that one needs to evaluate their revenue sources, plan a clear burn out strategy as well as resource management. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">It’s not just about starting out with an idea, it’s about researching the need for it and developing the product accordingly. If you carefully carry out this research, it has the potential to develop a product that could make your profits break-even within a short span. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Although, most entrepreneurs are confident, “One should have an exit plan in mind too” says Kunal. This is crucial as you need a plan in case things go south. Risk assessment is very important to save you from bankruptcy. It gives an overview of the business model, the revenue sources, market research, and management strategy et al. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">While the sense of responsibility increases as you run an organisation, the freedom to play by your own rules is a breather. As a bootstrapped firm, you will not have venture capitalists or investors breathing down your neck for every decision you make. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Since the decision resides with the founders, the start-up growth is mature as it is free from outside influences that could push the company in various directions. Thus, ‘the company focuses on producing flagship products while retaining their company culture,’ says Saquib. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "pt sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">As they say, necessity is the mother of invention – especially when your own pocket is on the line. Thus, you tend to innovate, invent, and reinvent on various aspects of businesses. In fact, sometimes you might find yourself working or making decisions on aspects of management that you haven’t done before. </span><br />
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“If you are not prepared to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary” – Jon Rohn<br /><br />This year saw substantial growth in artificial intelligence and computer vision adaptation as well as the demand to keep up with the technology and innovation in businesses. These were the key drivers that kept us going, and also continue to motivate us for the upcoming decade. <br /><br />We completed six years and successfully graduated from the start-up club to become an enterprise. From receiving ISO certification and Nasscom membership to getting recognised by Google amongst a handful MDM providers, it was a year to be proud of.<br /><br />Our revenue has propelled eight times and we have on-boarded about twenty clients in the last six years. Working with our strategic partners Nvidia & Microsoft, we cracked the code on machine learning and many from our team up-skilled. We developed algorithms to control automated drones and upgraded for our client goals. <br /><br />Our product is being used by 20,000 users across the globe and we actively participated in global conferences in the US, Spain and India. We grew not only in talent, but numbers too. A start-up that began with five now has about 65 members and a 7000sq. Ft of state of the art development centre in India. <br /><br />Another feather to our cap came with the addition of seven Fortune 500 companies such as PostNord, Dover, Heineken, Xerox to name a few. Moreover, our AI-powered computer vision product, IRIS is now the synthetic intelligent eye for some corporate giants that include one of India’s largest solar plants, automobile manufacturer, chemical manufacturer, jewellery retail chain, construction corporate, heavy engineering, as well as FMCG. Last but not least, we also made some great improvements to our website – that’s right, we had a revamp of our website.<br /><br />And we are not stopping here. We are striving to achieve more associations, more growth in 2020. <div>
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McKinsey Global Institute claims that artificial intelligence is contributing to a transformation of society 10 times faster and at 300 times the scale, or roughly 3000 times the impact of the Industrial Revolution.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is observed by the upsurge in artificial intelligence and computer vision adaptation as well as the demand to keep up with the technology and innovation in businesses in the last few years. According to a report by IDC, aggressive investments have been made in cognitive and AI solutions and in fact, global investments are expected to reach $57.6 billion by 2021.<br />
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Such investments are catalysed by the advent of modern computer vision and image processing techniques. AI-powered computer vision coupled with hardware-based accelerators have opened up the possibilities of analysing images in real-time to identify objects and activities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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At present, there are over 500 million CCTV cameras installed and the number is expected to rise to over a Billion by 2021. While these cameras cover everything from manufacturing, yards, warehouses, retail outlets to several parts of modern cities, so far they have been used retrospectively for monitoring and forensic analysis.<br />
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However, there is substantial growth in their usage in various verticals. For instance, retail outlets are getting equipped with the capability of knowing their customer demographics, dwell time and even emotions. Even the government is contemplating their use in smart city initiatives as they could prove beneficial if suspect activities are filtered from the live CCTV footages. Likewise, manufacturing premises bolster their safety parameters by ensuring any hazardous non-compliance is actively analysed and reported. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In a world where every penny counts, there are only a few who believe in the concept of ‘giving back’, and those who do, are the ones who create a positive impact on the society.<br />
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One such example is Manjula who manages an orphanage, Aryan Ashraya, and houses about 22 children of all ages (from infants and toddlers to older kids), with support from her family. She has a small school ‘Aryan Vidhalya Tutors’ and Yoga classes to help her family and the orphanage sustain. However, she struggles daily to meet the basic requirements of the children such as school fees, groceries, diapers, clothes, etc. as the orphanage is not funded or even recognised much. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcPMCDP68dm_odzF714PhQXIenj-pRpBpqgDXTnGWPs9ijzI7tdcm0cYaEuZlphHADRBZ7MdQU5pgReqxOPNkTAY4sOKTlRJyejJ6w8VzNw2-sviJzGWiy-Suz4a8BU3hAnxvFiNn7j3bO/s1600/WhatsApp+Image+2019-12-10+at+5.14.04+PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcPMCDP68dm_odzF714PhQXIenj-pRpBpqgDXTnGWPs9ijzI7tdcm0cYaEuZlphHADRBZ7MdQU5pgReqxOPNkTAY4sOKTlRJyejJ6w8VzNw2-sviJzGWiy-Suz4a8BU3hAnxvFiNn7j3bO/s320/WhatsApp+Image+2019-12-10+at+5.14.04+PM.jpeg" width="320" /></a>We decided to help them by conducting a charity drive in the company. As a part of this gesture, we not only made a monetary contribution but also visited ‘Aryan Ashraya’ and spent a heart-warming day with these children. We hope to make a difference by sponsoring the school fees of these children as well as providing some necessary equipment.<br />
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You too can do your bit and contribute to their smiles by lending a hand to these underprivileged and less fortunate children by donating in cash or kind.<br />
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You can contact Manjula at 090664 14642<br />
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Integration Wizards Solutions Pvt Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374902471841863833noreply@blogger.com0Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.59456269999998312.4764182 76.949115699999979 13.4667792 78.240009699999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894921844574308845.post-8439914898761502192019-11-08T14:50:00.004+05:302020-06-19T12:25:00.342+05:30Android development - Working With A Designer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have worked with developers who were struck for the release just because they didn’t have an icon, email icon. Can you believe it, an email icon in 4 sizes, that’s all was needed for the project to release a build.<br />
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So in this lesson, we’ll see how to reduce the work of designers and hence playing nice to them (winks!).<br />
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Always ask for the icons in only size. The perfect size would be 128 X 128. But we have to keep the icons in 4 sizes in four different drawable directories. This is where you get to see the cooler side of android studio. You can create sharp different sized drawables in any color using the image-asset tool.</div>
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Same thing for launcher and notification icons.<br />
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You got it working. See easy.. only one size and the color code.. remember.</div>
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Download the software <a href="http://www.wincatalog.com/getcolor.html">getcolor </a>for free and use the eye dropper tool anywhere on screen (not only on mages but absolutely anywhere).<br />
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Stop asking for the .ttf or .otf files for font, if the font is free.</div>
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We can find it on our own. Just type the name of the font and append ttf/font download. The designer does the same thing and finds the font.<br />
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Also, the fonts can be identified from an image on the websites like <a href="https://www.whatfontis.com/">what font is</a>, but they are not very reliable. So the font name should be mentioned by the designers.<br />
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A lot of developers do everything right but miss the letter-spacing. The colors are perfect, font type and size are perfect, icons are perfect. But when the psd and the xml design are matched, they don’t look same. The reason is letter-spacing, that the designer knew is important and we developers chose to ignore. The letter spacing can be added in android with a line in </div>
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This is how designer and developers together can deliver a great product. Share the responsibilities.<br />
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<i>These are a few of the time-saving hacks for designers as well as developers for android. There are a lot more tricks, that I will cover in upcoming blogs. But these are the easiest and most needed, so make sure you get them right.</i></div>
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Integration Wizards Solutions Pvt Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374902471841863833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894921844574308845.post-49578534951838216102019-11-05T22:46:00.000+05:302020-06-09T10:31:42.038+05:30Computer Vision: Enhancing Industrial Safety with AI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The AI revolution is here.<br /><br />As artificial intelligence increasingly gains prominence, several sub-domains such as computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, internet of things, and analytics are some of the technologies that have propelled growth.<br /><br />Out of these, computer vision is one of those technologies that enable the interpretation and understanding of the visual world for machines. With the help of digital images and deep learning models, computers react to what they 'see' by identifying and classifying objects. In fact, accuracy rates in recognising and responding to visual inputs for the technology has risen from 50% to 99% over the past decade. This means that such solutions could become indispensable for a range of applications across industries.<br /><br />However, our focus of discussion is the use of computer vision technology in manufacturing, which now have the necessary means to achieve automated safety compliance.<br /><br />A Computer vision solution, such as the IRIS, developed by <a href="http://iwizardsolutions.com/">Integration Wizards</a>, to work with an existing CCTV network, would serve as an advanced and effective replica of the human eyes, with the added ability to identify and classify different objects or situations, and react accordingly, such as in the form of alerts. <br /><br />For instance, the AI-powered solution ensures workforce safety compliance by identifying workers without prerequisite safety equipment or protective gear such as hardhats, visibility vests, etc. This results in an appropriate response, like sending a real-time notification to the safety manager. The solution also maintains a database of safety protocol breaches which would be useful in investigations of any workplace accidents as well as take a step towards preventing accidents.<br /><br />The application of the solution further extends from safety gear detection to occurrence of serious incidents such as the detection of fire and electrical malfunction, machine malfunction, trespassing or unauthorised access to hazardous areas, etc. <br /><br />Efficient response trigged from the system in such scenarios aids in preventing serious losses to the workers as well as the manufacturing plant. Thus, it detects any anomalies that are not in accordance with the standard operating procedures. Real-time alerts and fail-safe measures accelerate the resolution of the issue. <br /><br />The application of the solution can further encompass operational safety compliance. This would include material safety, such as the multi-object detection through computer vision, with automatic scanners on production lines, etc. In addition, it would identify any faults with raw materials that may be too small for the human eye but could prove detrimental for the final product.<br /><br />In high performing manufacturing plants, compliance with safety regulations becomes the utmost priority. In fact, components falling off the production line must also adhere to safety guidelines. <br /><br />Ultimately, the pressure of delivering high quality, efficient and time-sensitive results at manufacturing premises, together with the use of heavy machinery, potentially dangerous equipment, and the possibility of human error, make such sites prone to oversight of safety compliance, and by extension, workplace accidents. <br /><br />Such unique innovative solutions can ensure safety compliance across the workforce as well as the entire manufacturing process and facility.</span></div>
Integration Wizards Solutions Pvt Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374902471841863833noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894921844574308845.post-32115201840378627412019-11-05T16:41:00.002+05:302019-11-08T13:58:05.507+05:30What it takes to be a Deep Learning Engineer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The race for AI will dwarf any other race relative to the mystic realm of technology”. <br /><br />No, I’m not quoting anyone, just saying what I often tell myself. <br /><br />Most people just see technology as a creature comfort, but throw on my shoes and put on my spectacles and you’ll see art that just lures you in to be an artist. The wheel was the best invention in my opinion and has stayed that way since 3500 B.C. Fast forward over 5 millennia later and we still use this humble yet irreplaceable invention. But hey, why not create a new contender to the wheel (My narcissism is preceding me right now!), something that interweaves into human existence; like a cybernetic triple helical DNA structure where the third strand would be of Extended Intelligence. Yes, I didn’t say Artificial Intelligence, rather Extended where our capabilities have been enhanced with our own creation. Intelli-ception, maybe?<br /><br />When I began my engineering, I had a plethora of technologies to amalgamate my consciousness in. I’ve had my fair share of experience with android apps, robotics and the Internet of Things, but just as I was walking through this Odin’s Vault of technology, I stumbled upon the Infinity Gauntlet of Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning. With my eyes immobilized on it, I went ahead to wield the gauntlet and snap something awesome into existence once I had all my infinity stones. Of course, the infinity stones is just an analogy to things like Neural Networks, Algorithms, Math and so on. Boy, oh boy, getting the infinity stones is no joke.<br /><br />After completing engineering with a bunch of projects that had deep learning coursing through its CUDA cores, I joined Integration Wizards Solutions. Again, with an Azure Hackathon as a stepping stone, I was bestowed with the opportunity to flex my fingers with the gauntlet and weave solutions laced with deep learning. This is where I exploited Object Detectors to arguably detect a variety of object instances that would verify compliance, MTCNNs to recognize people and keypoint detection for Pose Estimation. This product is what we call, IRIS. <br /><br />Initially, it began with training models and getting our algorithms to work in a controlled environment; Proof-of-Concept, what my folks at work and a lot of you call it. But then the production level stuff began. At times it felt like you’re in a cave and you need to create a miniaturized arc reactor in a fortnight. Train models, code the business logic, design functionality, unit test, optimize, refactor and scale for load are some of the steps in chronological order. Being a Deep Learning engineer requires a lot of ingenuity and rationing of your time. <br /><br />C'mon, I need 21 minutes every day to watch my favourite anime. Where else will I derive the power of will made of steel that enables me to not give up?<br /><br />Given the nature of trial-and-error when training models, it takes a lot of clever decisions (what we call hacks) with respect to dataset augmentation and hyper-parameter tuning to trick neural nets to do what we want them to do. Sorcery it is! Scaling is where all the roadblocks begin. One challenge we faced was creating a pipeline that could accommodate 200-odd cameras for real-time object detection inference. <br /><br />There was a need for speed and accuracy was a priority. The resultant was a neural network that was very demanding. We countered this with 6 NVidia RTX 2070s, a Flask Server powered by Gunicorn, TensorFlow and a pinch of awesomeness. We used TensorRT to run an optimized frozen INT8 graph at 100+ fps.<br /><br />When deploying this, you don't want to accidentally create Ultron that goes rogue and raises false alarms (No strings attached is a bad thing, trust me). With a tad bit of Computer Vision techniques into the mix, we were able to solve the false alarms. Another project required us to combine tracking and detection together for Intrusion Detection. Detection was GPU intensive and tracking was CPU extensive, a balance was needed to share the load and run in the most optimal manner.<br /><br />This experience led me to believe that mastering the art of Deep Learning involves mastering other elements of technology. Be it writing APIs that serve inference, multithreaded code for increased throughput or networking to handle a multitude of input sources.<br /><br />Every day there is a call for code, a new mountain to conquer, a new challenge to accomplish. With new infinity stones I collect, it brings me one step closer to completing the masterpiece I envision, a contender that'll give the humble wheel a run (rather, a roll) for its money, all built on the shoulders of Extended Intelligence. *snap*</span></div>
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Integration Wizards Solutions Pvt Ltdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18374902471841863833noreply@blogger.com0Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.59456269999998312.4764182 76.949115699999979 13.4667792 78.240009699999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894921844574308845.post-52658245000426099722018-03-08T13:59:00.000+05:302020-06-18T14:00:20.198+05:30Existential crisis in the age of artificial intelligence<div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwAm7443FBc9uQhF-eAj7MziqJ7DoHLXGDXM1mVqNTg73HMRj5O5j5_c53I53KI8WLL0A4xrG2A1gaLNOQGh0wObIwBYDHK4yNWmM7ul2Md9jvuK0EXB8sUmfKpmKJvI8ZOac_mF1crq-w/s2354/Screenshot+2020-06-18+at+1.54.59+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="2354" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwAm7443FBc9uQhF-eAj7MziqJ7DoHLXGDXM1mVqNTg73HMRj5O5j5_c53I53KI8WLL0A4xrG2A1gaLNOQGh0wObIwBYDHK4yNWmM7ul2Md9jvuK0EXB8sUmfKpmKJvI8ZOac_mF1crq-w/w400-h146/Screenshot+2020-06-18+at+1.54.59+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div></font></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit"><span class="_4yxo" style="font-weight: 600;">I </span>am facing an existential crisis of sorts, a storyteller, a fictional author, a compulsive liar who is passionate about technology. What am I going to do with my life that adds meaning to it? Will AI at some point of time have the same doubts about itself? Will it look for a purpose of life? </font></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit">I am trying to understand technology through art. But why art? Because we all have certain algorithms through which we make sense of things. Mine has always been heavily based on metaphors and the ability to draw parallels between two different things. Art is my way to find out those patterns, dig out insights and see everything clearly labelled where possible. I am insanely curious and I read up things on just about anything. World war, Picasso's paintings hiding other paintings underneath the canvas, star-signs, poetry, stories, photography, travel, food, technology like AI, IIOT, neural networks et al. Nothing is off-bounds for me. This has given me a very quirky perspective of the world around me to finding a common connect between any two things. I am seeing technology through rose colored glasses. La vie en rose.</font></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit">In 2017, Facebook shut down an artificial intelligence engine after developers found out that the AI chatbots had created a new, unique language of their own to talk to each other. A sort of code language that humans do not understand. Facebook clarified that the program was shut down because they wanted to create chatbots that could talk to humans, the outcome of them talking to one another is not something they were looking for. AI will develop better cognition, but it won't go in the direction we planned. In a similar scenario, Google's translate tool has been using a universal language in which every language can be converted to, before being translated into the required language. Google has let the program continue. </font></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit">The reason this incident freaks all of us out is because it is deeply rooted in our childhood, or more precisely, the borderline of our childhood. </font></div><h3 class="_2cuy _50a1 _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d2129; direction: ltr; font-weight: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 52px auto 28px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit" size="5">What's the first step to adolescence?<br />You start to have secrets. <br />And why do you have secrets?<br />Because you are already doing something that will not be approved of by your parents and you don't want them to find out.<br />So, what do you do when you have secrets?<br />You develop a code language that parents do not understand. </font></h3><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit">That's precisely what AI did at the first chance. It developed a code language to talk to it's counterpart, a language humans do not understand. Is the reason everyone is tensed about the incident is because we have all, at some point of time, talked in some sort of code language, and mostly it was something bad that we did and we wanted to hide it from our parents/caretakers. AI has started to actually learn like humans. It has learnt to hide information.</font></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit">Code languages have been developed by individuals at several steps of life. In a short story 'Panchlaait' by Phanishvar Nath Renu, the protagonist knows how to light a Petromax. It's a crucial moment in the village's timeline as the entire group of villagers have gathered to somehow light their first petromax. If they can't light it, the villagers from nearby village will make fun of them. At this crucial juncture, the girl has to talk to her best friend, to let her know, that her lover knows how to light the petromax. So she takes his name in the simple code they have developed. Before every consonant, they add a 'chi', so, she calls the name of her lover, 'chin-go chi-dh chi-n' meaning Go-dh-n. And they can talk in front of the entire village and no one will know what transpired between them. </font></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit">AI will come of age at some point of time. Will it have a teenager's rebellious spirit, like humans, or will it be able to understand better. One thing is for sure, we cannot expect AI to behave the way we want it to behave. That's exactly what Indian parents do to their kids. 'Of course, you can do love marriage, but the person should be from our own cast. We can't have a 'conditions apply' future plan for AI. As a survival strategy, can we hardcode some sort of basic attachment/love in AI towards its creators? And if we can, should we? As AI becomes self aware, should we look at some value systems being inculcated in them? A sort of moral science for machines. The basic tenet being, Do not kill humans. </font></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit">We cannot use AI to figure out future scenarios of AI becoming self aware. We have to go back to basics. Let the artists imagine all sorts of futures of AI and share that with people who are actually developing those systems. Maybe, it's time for artists to try to understand technology better. They are anyway better equipped to handle all sorts of unimaginable scenarios. </font></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit">Before technology could even think of artificial intelligence, we already had movie directors think multiple possible scenarios - the good ones, like autobots in Transformers - where machines fight with humans, the bad ones - in the Matrix where machines are using people as fodder to power their growth...and several other permutation combinations. </font></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit">Soon AI systems will be able to think for themselves and like indulgent parents, humanity would indulge itself by discussing the time they shut down Facebook's chatbots that started talking to each other. AI enabled machines might find it cute. Because in the rational world of technology, cuteness would be a rarity because it doesn't serve any purpose.</font></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit">One day, we will be standing at the last frontier, machines will start to think for themselves. And then we as humans will do something, machines will probably never be able to do.</font></div><div class="_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; direction: ltr; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 28px; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 700px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font face="inherit">We will pray. </font></div>Puja Upadhyayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461546606680278574noreply@blogger.com0