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Research and development
As technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, staying competitive in a crowded market is crucial to the success of any business. Establishing investment in R&D is only effective if your budget is being utilized intelligently, and with The Main Branch as a partner you get the advantage of deep experience developing new applications in VR/AR, AI/ML, CV, and automation.
Our passion is solving puzzles, especially those that have never been solved before. Let’s identify a goal together, and we’ll bypass all the red tape to get you there.
PowerShift Platform
Question: If your service offering involves manually sorting and categorizing images that need to be accessed quickly, how can annotation be improved?
Answer: Analyze metadata attached to images to do the annotation and develop algorithms to self-correct labelling.
Valmont offers drone image capture of steel poles so that the integrity of the pole can be monitored. Drones capture multiple images of multiple poles per flight, and so assigning images to the proper pole was a time-consuming process that was subject to error. By looking at exact coordinates of where the drone was when the image was taken, and analyzing the direction the camera was pointing, The Main Branch created a new algorithm that removed the need for manual review of the images and delivered them directly to engineers via a suite of customizable reports. This was so effective, that solutions followed for creating custom drone software, automated flight solutions and even custom hardware attached to the drones to allow for automatic washing of corrosion and acidic debris from the poles.
