The 2023 Vision Tank Start-Up Competition is open for submissions!

The deadline for entries is March 3, 2023. Nominate a start-up to enter and you could win up to three free passes to the Summit if they become a finalist!

Looking for inspiration? Check out our 2022 finalists and winners:

The Final Round was held on Wednesday, May 18, 2022
at the Embedded Vision Summit.

About the Vision Tank Start-Up Competition

The Vision Tank Start-Up Competition showcases the best new ventures that are solving real-world problems by creating innovations fueled by visual AI, deep learning and computer vision.

It’s open to early-stage companies, and they are judged on four criteria: technology innovation, business plan, team and business opportunity. The competition is intended for start-ups that:

Have an initial product or prototype
Have ~15 or fewer people
Have raised less than ~$2M in capital

The Vision Tank finals take place live on stage during the Embedded Vision Summit.

All finalists get one-on-one advice from our panel of expert judges, as well as valuable introductions to potential investors, customers, employees, and suppliers. They also receive a complimentary 10 x 5’ booth in the Exhibit Hall at the Summit (valued at $8,500). All of this means they’ll benefit from significant visibility at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit, May 22-25, in Santa Clara California.

Two awards are given out each year: the Judges’ Award and the Audience Choice Award. The winner of the Vision Tank Judges’ Award receives a $5,000 cash prize, and both winners receive a one-year membership in the Edge AI and Vision Alliance.

Meet the 2023 Vision Tank Judges

What Previous Winners Say

“The Vision Tank competition was very powerful for us. One of our first commercial projects applying insect-brain-derived vision and navigation came from our founder speaking at the 2021 Summit, following our win at the Vision Tank Competition the year before… and several more conversations started due to the visibility the competition created for us. In the early days, nothing is more important than generating the momentum that gets the flywheel turning. It got us out, loud and proud, into the autonomy market. We became visible.”

David Rajan, Co-founder, CEO, Opteran
Audience Choice Winner—Vision Tank Start-Up Competition

“Visibility is key for a start-up, and the Vision Tank gave us great visibility. Also, the Vision Tank judges and audience were good validation for us—our Audience Choice Award was awarded by people who understand the space well and who are key stakeholders.”

Charbel Rizk, Founder and CEO, Oculi
Audience Choice Winner—Vision Tank Start-Up Competition

Watch the pitch videos from the 2022 finalists!

These start-ups are bringing new innovations to the computer vision and visual AI market.

2022 Judges' Award Winner
- Hummingbirds AI -

Hummingbirds AI

Hummingbirds AI - Full Description

Hummingbirds AI is an award-winning computer vision startup, creating edge-based applications in the intersection of security and privacy for enterprises, including GuacamoleID. GuacamoleID is a video-based MFA authentication solution for enterprise computers that continuously protects employees’ devices against unauthorized access through frame-by-frame face verification. This edge-based application continuously matches the faces in front of the computer with authorized faces; and automatically blocks the unauthorized people. The admin dashboard gives administrators visibility into operations through real-time vulnerability detection on scale with a stepping up mechanism. While the primary benefit of GuacamoleID is information security, it’s a user-friendly app for employees to be more secure, engaged and productive in their work. It’s the first solution in the market that protects devices after login. Also it’s camera agnostic and doesn’t require expensive cameras. It’s cloud-independent, therefore affordable. It’s privacy-first and GDPR compliant and all the biometrics are encrypted and stay in the device. Website: https://hummingbirds.ai

2022 Audience Choice Award Winner
- Oculi -

Oculi

Oculi - Full Description

Oculi is a deep-tech fabless company with an experienced team of semiconductor and vision experts, a spin-out of Johns Hopkins where the founder developed the technology. Oculi means “eyes” and our mission is to make artificial vision faster and more efficient by embedding intelligence at the pixel. We have paying customers and a growing pipeline in AR/VR, gaming, and smart/interactive display. They all require real-time eye, gesture, face, and people tracking. Any perceived lag is unnatural, and therefore an unpleasant experience for the user as human vision performs these acts in real-time. Power consumption also negatively impacts the user experience for battery-operated devices. In addition, the user is limited to controlled environments further impacting the desired experience. Oculi technology enables a natural & immersive user experience indoors and outdoors, with up to 30x reduction in power consumption and latency with a lower bill of materials. Website: https://www.oculi.ai/

2022 Finalists

linedanceAI

linedanceAI MovalityTM, is a software solution of movement quality records for outpatient musculoskeletal providers who work with patients recovering from accidents or injuries.

linedanceAI - Full Description

linedanceAI MovalityTM, is a software solution of movement quality records for outpatient musculoskeletal providers who work with patients recovering from accidents or injuries. MovalityTM transforms provider observations into explainable, actionable data-backed assessments to boost patient understanding and increase patient retention. Providers using MovalityTM improve the explainability and delivery of musculoskeletal care in their practices by connecting objective movement quality metrics with patient recovery pathways and goals.

Efficient: AI models are hardware optimized, running on NPU for increased performance.
Cost effective: Local inference eliminates the need of sending data and processing them in the cloud.
On-device processing: With the on-device AI, user content is processed locally. This provides a better user interface with uncompromised security.

Website: https://www.linedanceai.com

Qlairvoyance

Qlairvoyance - Full Description

Qlairvoyance is an AI platform for radar sensors that enables applications to take advantage of “x-ray visual intelligence”: sensing intelligence that is extracted beyond the field of view, agnostic to lighting conditions and is privacy preserving. The platform provides out-of-the-box APIs that run on the edge or cloud and facilitate detection, tracking and prediction of human activity, concealed objects and hand gestures. The platform provides real-time spatial locations of identified objects at cm-level resolution, direction + speed of movement, depth and elevation azimuth allowing for a wide-variety of downstream applications. A primary technical innovation of Qlairvoyance is a proprietary algorithm fusing visual intelligence with radar based AI models. Qlairvoyance is currently running proof of concepts with a national retailer and low-code platform provider for privacy-preserving people counting, occupancy sensing and concealed weapons detection. Website: https://qlairvoyance.com/

Tempo Analytics

Tempo Analytics - Full Description

Tempo Analytics SOS (Speed of Service) solution uses state of the art advancements in machine learning and computer vision to collect valuable statistics and metrics to business owners over the average speed of service at the counter, average waiting time, average time a customer spends in the restaurant, congestion areas, etc. The solution utilizes feed from multiple PoE cameras for its operation, applying advanced operations on the visual camera feeds to efficiently track and re-identify customers across multiple cameras, and accurately estimate the time they spend performing different activities (entering the store, submitting order, picking up order, consuming food, leaving store, etc.). The end to end solution is designed for utmost privacy and security as no data is collected or transmitted, it is an independent edge device that does not require any network connection. It functions based on state of the art advancements in object detection, tracking, and re-identification. Our solution is capable of retrofitting existing cameras, reducing the total price of the system. Website: https://tempo-analytics.ai

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Vision Tank

The 2023 Vision Tank Start-Up Competition is open for submissions!

The deadline for entries is March 3, 2023. Nominate a start-up to enter and you could win up to three free passes to the Summit if they become a finalist!

Looking for inspiration? Check out our 2022 finalists and winners:

The Final Round was held on Wednesday, May 18, 2022
at the Embedded Vision Summit.