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Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryScientific image analysis

Detectors upgraded to 100,000 images per second left annotators drowning. AI now delivers labeled 3D volumes live, at the beamline.

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Key results

Annotation Time Reduction
15 mins
vs 1 month per time step

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The story

Context

One of the US Department of Energy's premier research laboratories, home to the Advanced Light Source, a football field-sized X-ray facility whose upgraded detectors have gone from capturing one image every six seconds to 100,000 images per second.

Challenge

Upgraded detectors now generate orders of magnitude more data than a decade ago, far outpacing what scientists can analyze manually. Each dataset...

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The company

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

lbl.gov

Department of Energy national laboratory conducting scientific research.

IndustryGovernment & Public Sector
LocationBerkeley, CA, USA
Employees1K-5K
Founded1931

The vendor

Social technology company developing AI frameworks, VR hardware, and digital platforms.

IndustrySoftware & Platforms
LocationMenlo Park, CA, USA
Employees100K+
Founded2004

Use case

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Scientific image analysis is part of this use case:

Computer Vision
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