With pylon AI, Basler AG presents software for easy entry into precise image analysis with artificial intelligence. pylon AI focuses on efficiency in the target application: The performance benchmarking function enables users to determine the most powerful processing hardware for their application. The AI applications created with pylon AI can be used without any programming effort.
The new software allows users to create robust image analysis pipelines—from image acquisition to deployment in the target application—using drag-and-drop programming. The interface to the target application is also particularly user-friendly, thanks to the Recipe Code Generator function and proven pylon APIs. The new image analysis software consists of the pylon AI Platform for Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) and four pylon AI vTools (plug-ins that execute the AI models).
pylon AI platform
Thanks to the open ONNX format for deep learning models, numerous common AI frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and NVIDIA TAO can be used. With the platform, the classes of the AI model are assigned to the image data. The AI models are then optimized (model conversion and quantization are possible) and the processing hardware is benchmarked for the best performance.
pylon AI vTools as plug-ins in the pylon Software Suite
The AI model optimized on the pylon AI platform can be loaded into the pylon AI vTools online or offline via drag-and-drop. The plug-ins enable complex applications with changing environmental conditions such as object detection, classification, and semantic and instance segmentation. They can be combined with the existing pylon vTools for image processing, which are based on classic algorithms.
Overall, customers benefit from greatly reduced development costs and a high level of flexibility and transparency. "pylon AI provides an easy entry into AI-driven applications with high cost efficiency. Integrated into the pylon Software Suite, we now offer the complete image processing route on a single user interface as a full-range provider: from image acquisition to image processing and image analysis. We also supply the appropriate machine vision hardware for the high AI readout speeds," emphasizes Pauline Lux, Product Group Architect at Basler.