Strategic Focus: Augmenting Industrial Processes With Visual Inspection Technology
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Executive Summary
The rapid advancements in computer vision (CV) technology, driven by improved hardware, deep learning techniques and superior training models, have revolutionized industrial inspections, enhancing quality and safety standards. This report examines the current state of AI-based visual inspection technology, its applications and the trends shaping the industry’s future.Exploring the broad spectrum of visual inspection applications in industrial operations
Automated visual inspections leverage a variety of hardware
Major trends shaping the future of visual inspections
About the Authors
Henry Kirkman
Senior Analyst
Henry is a Senior Analyst in the AI Applied research team at Verdantix, specializing in enterprise AI platforms, agentic systems, industrial AI, document AI and graph database...
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Malavika Tohani
Research Director
Malavika is a Research Director at Verdantix, guiding research that explores how digital technologies and services are reshaping industrial operations to become safer, more ef...
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