A general evaluation of ALPR systems for commercial models. Background Anno.Ai’s data science team often conducts benchmark assessments of commercial and open-source AI/ML models to gauge their fit for our customers’ use cases (for example, see our assessments of handwritten text recognition (HTR) models and named entity recognition (NER) models here…

An evaluation of Named Entity Recognition models for commercial NLP offerings. Background As part of our series on AI/ML model evaluations, the Anno.Ai data science team delved into the world of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Many of our customers have NLP needs, so we decided to explore a variety of online…

Where remote work is more and more the norm for companies around the world, it is easy to overlook one of the most foundational elements of managing a team: having a plan for when catastrophe strikes. In this sense, however, think less Day After Tomorrow meets 28 Days Later, and…

Introduction This blog describes experiments where data transformations (called transforms in the ML community) are evaluated for their ability to improve re-identification, called re-id. So what is a transform and what is re-id? To answer the former, consider Anno mascot Potato, centered in the transform wheel in Figure 1. The center…

First, they came for the defectors. Then, they came for the diplomats. Now, they come for the democracies. The last month has been as horrifying as it has been inspiring. As insidious and indiscriminate shelling pummeled pregnant women and innocent children in Kyiv and Kharkov, Western companies with headquarters spanning…

Written by Matt Thomasson, Vice President of Engineering, Onsights.io This article is going to appear to be less about business and more about life, but in the end it will be clear that these are one and the same. I’m going to start off with a little story. I have…

Background At Anno, we use instance segmentation in several of our machine learning (ML) pipelines. In our previous blog posts on user-assisted segmentation in our Labeling App, we described incorporating segmentation into our data labeling workflows to speed up annotation of large image and video datasets. …

The Anno.Ai Labeling App recently entered its third year supporting our customers and internal machine learning workflows. In this post, we highlight some of the latest features that focus on integration with our Vision application. Anno.Ai’s roots are in making data annotation simple, fast, and accurate. The Anno.Ai Labeling App…

The premise to the title of this post is pretty obvious. If you are an enterprise or organization focused on consciously incorporating Machine Learning Operations into your data science practice, you are simultaneously performing responsible AI. …