{"id":14608,"date":"2019-07-01T10:15:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=14608"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:24","slug":"u-m-startup-launches-video-processing-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/01\/u-m-startup-launches-video-processing-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M startup launches video processing platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/voxel-cars-1-700x355.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/voxel-cars-1-700x355.png 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/voxel-cars-1-200x102.png 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/voxel-cars-1-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/voxel-cars-1-768x390.png 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/voxel-cars-1-665x338.png 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/voxel-cars-1.png 835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption><em>(Voxel51<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A U-M startup, Voxel51, is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"expanding access to video data  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/eecs.umich.edu\/eecs\/about\/articles\/2019\/advancing-ai-for-video.html\" target=\"_blank\">expanding access to video data<\/a> through a new software platform. The platform, released in June, offers companies an affordable way to extract information from the medium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jason Corso, an electrical and computer engineering professor and co-founder of Voxel51, says the tool is &#8220;the first and only publicly available platform for road scene understanding.&#8221; While similar technologies exist, they are oftentimes proprietary and created for a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBy democratizing video processing and access to large, annotated libraries, we enable younger startups to compete with the well-resourced teams working on driverless cars and other computer vision applications in large companies,&#8221; Corso said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U-M startup, Voxel51, is expanding access to video data through a new software platform. 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