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2023 Edition


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first published week of:   05/01/2023

GeoTechnologies Selects H2O.ai to Transform Its Geographic Information Development and Image Analysis Capabilities Through AI

by Business Wire

H2O.ai, announced a strategic partnership with Japanese-based GeoTechnologies, a provider of map data and location information solutions

H2O.ai, &hellip announced a strategic partnership with Japanese-based GeoTechnologies, a provider of map data and location information solutions for car navigation systems. The companies used the H2O AI Cloud to jointly develop an AI-powered platform that assesses sidewalk safety from on-board camera footage. By checking the safety of sidewalks and identifying dangerous spots in advance, this technology adds safety information to the map data provided by automobiles and car navigation vendors to reduce traffic accidents.

“GeoTechnologies has adopted the H2O AI Cloud to use terabytes of driving images to train machine learning models to improve context awareness across multiple situations. We were able to complete the work that normally takes two to three weeks, from building the environment to training and testing, in only one day. In addition, H2O’s ‘grid search function’ can search for the most accurate model from multiple AI models. When we verified images with conventional technology, we were 68 percent accurate. With H2O, we have increased accuracy nearly 30 percent to 97 percent,” said Tsukasa Enomoto, Chief Digital Officer at GeoTechnologies.

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