Unity Dramatically Reduces AI Training Time, Budgets With Launch of Synthetic Datasets
April 19 2021 - 8:01AM
Business Wire
Customizable Computer Vision offering expands
data access without compromising privacy
Unity, the world’s leading platform for creating and operating
real-time 3D (RT3D) content, today announced the availability of
Unity Computer Vision Datasets aimed to reduce the cost of
developing computer vision applications, and more quickly train AI
for the Manufacturing, Retail, and Security industries. Computer
Vision solutions providers can now purchase bespoke datasets for
their AI training needs all while maintaining strict privacy and
regulatory standards.
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Synthetic data is important because it is generated to meet
specific needs or conditions that are not available in existing
(real) data. This can be useful in numerous cases such as when
privacy requirements limit data availability, or dictate how it can
be used. One common use for synthetic data is for testing a
pre-released product, when data either does not exist or is not
available to the testers. Synthetic training data is also a major
requirement for machine learning algorithms. However, especially in
the case of self-driving cars, such data is expensive to generate
in real life. With today’s launch of Unity Computer Vision
Datasets, cost is no longer a barrier in obtaining high quality
synthetic datasets that can accelerate AI and machine learning
training.
“By creating a synthetic version of datasets that mirror
validated privacy rules and accurately reflect real-world data, we
enable these groundbreaking datasets to get into the hands of more
innovators,” said Dr. Danny Lange, Senior Vice President of
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Unity.
“Essentially, these datasets empower companies to plan for and
simulate scenarios they haven't yet experienced, with a sizable
increase in user data that mimics what they’d find over time in the
real world. As a result, we’re seeing smarter indoor environments,
such as cashierless grocery stores, and more as our customers
discover new applications.”
Unity’s Computer Vision Datasets make use of a technique known
as “domain randomization” to create diverse datasets that improve
quality and control bias in applications. The process outputs
permutations of how objects of interest are positioned and
orientated, including variances on lighting and camera angles as
well as the countless configurations to the Unity environment that
are possible. Unity’s synthetic datasets also avoid the privacy
pitfalls and uncontrolled biases that arise from processes that
often include images of real people and places scraped off the
Internet or manually captured from the real-world using
labor-intensive operations.
With real-world data, the price of annotation increases with the
complexity of the annotation type. Unity offers one low price for
any label type ensuring that customers pay the same price for
simple and complex industry standard label types such as 2D and 3D
bounding boxes, class segmentation or instance segmentation.
Datasets for purchase are available in a tiered pricing model that
sees the price per image decrease proportionality to the increased
need for more synthetic images.
“Synthetic data is revolutionizing the training of machine
learning models as it overcomes many of the shortcomings of
manually collected and labelled real-world data,” added Lange.
“Exploring what’s possible, and connecting creators with the
affordable data they need to make the right decisions continues to
drive Unity, no matter the industry. This is why our team will be
available to assist customers in ensuring that the datasets
produced meet the right criteria for their needs.”
To learn more about Unity’s AI Datasets offering, please visit
https://unity.com/products/computer-vision.
About Unity
Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and
operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game
developers to artists, architects, automotive designers,
filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come
to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software
solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and
3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented
and virtual reality devices. The company’s 1,800+ person research
and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by
working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the
latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators
were downloaded more than five billion times per month in 2020. For
more information, please visit www.unity.com.
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