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Overview
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*Image of Lolaark Vision's software, which is in the prototype phase. Lolaark Vision's software is not currently available on the market.
Video streams for drones or dash cams and camera-based AI applications, such as “auto-pilots” or assisted driving devices often lose visual clarity due to visibility problems caused by fog, rain, snow, or by lack of light as in nighttime.
Lolaark Vision Inc. is a software technology company that is inventing and developing software for live video stream visibility restoration that helps the operator or an automated system of a vehicle to view and recognize potential risks. This groundbreaking technology has the potential not only to revolutionize industries, but also save lives from potential accidents by minimizing human operating error. Our software isn’t a luxury; it’s the next step in the evolution of live video stream restoration. Lolaark Vision’s technology will provide visual clarity for AI based camera operating systems as they become more ubiquitous in everyday life.
Co-founders Dr. Sanat Kumar Upadhyay and Prof. Emanuel I. Papadakis invented several sophisticated mathematical models and algorithms that enabled visibility restoration and enhancement in a broad number of adverse conditions for all types of digital cameras. Our technology improves the visibility of scene structures in live video feed, still photography and in recorded videos, in a way that makes shapes easily recognizable even when they are not even visible in the original input.
THE PROBLEM
Real-time operations such as self-driving cars, security and surveillance, underwater inspections, and medical imaging. require clear visibility for optimal performance. Shade, low light, glare, strong headlights, fog, heavy rain and murky water often reduces camera visibility, thus performance quality. As our lives are becoming increasingly machine dependent, human vision is gradually being replaced or complemented by camera vision. The synergy of other sensor error probabilities must be practically zero.
For instance, an autopilot for self-driving cars must detect objects ahead even under poor lighting conditions in order to avoid potentially dangerous obstacles. Marine safety inspections that are carried out by Remotely Operated Vehicles usually occur in inland water bodies or in river ports where visibility is always a difficult obstacle to overcome.
Security and Surveillance systems (such as face and object recognition systems) and drones can suffer poor visibility due to low illumination, haze, fog, precipitation, or or smoke. Camera sensors are unable to capture images with sufficient clarity in such conditions, which makes object recognition and scene perception very difficult and often inaccurate for both humans and machines. Biomedical images can also suffer different forms of illumination challenges. Also, microscopic images of live specimens may suffer poor visibility due to weakening of laser light intensity. Often we cannot use strong lasers as it may damage the specimens.
All of these industries rely on accurate and clear camera views to provide the necessary visibility for their respective users. The common problem in all of these cases is to find fast and efficient algorithms that improve visibility in real-time for videos and images.
THE SOLUTION
The technology we developed has unique advantages. It is highly parallelizable, hence we can implement it in real time by taking advantage of programmable Graphics processing units, such as NVIDIA graphics cards, fitted even in laptops. It also achieves high restoration clarity for a great variety of visibility conditions, even for bad ones, such as the murky waters of coastal ports. This unique level of performance provides us with a strong foothold in multiple markets.
For self-driving cars, Lolaark Vision has the technology to assist those AI-based autopilot systems by improving the visual quality of the camera inputs. Our technology can help an autopilot or human detect objects ahead even under poor lighting conditions to avoid dangerous obstacles in a timely manner. For security and surveillance usage, Lolaark Vision can greatly enhance their capabilities under poor visibility conditions, both in real-time applications and in post-processing applications.
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In the biomedical imaging industry, our technology can greatly enhance visibility for both scans and medical cameras used for exploratory purposes by restoring the image quality during and after the scan. For marine operations, our prototype is currently configured for underwater cameras and can clean up a live video stream. Commercial divers and underwater drone operators can also use our technology with more confidence about what they see and in a fraction of time. Our technology allows them to inspect submerged structures such as ship hulls, dams, bridges in their operations when water turbidity poses big visibility problems. By harnessing the power of sophisticated mathematical algorithms and graphics card units, we tripled and quadrupled the visibility radius of underwater cameras in highly murky waters.
Our target market is other businesses who manufacture large systems used for operations such as security, surveillance, navigation, incorporating object detection and recognition. They integrate our technology as a preprocessing plugin to increase the accuracy of their systems when visibility conditions are poor. Within this framework, our main revenue stream will come from royalties collected from these other companies operating in the aforementioned markets.
OUR TRACTION
We have developed both mathematical models and computational algorithms for our technology as well as working prototypes for both real time and offline visibility enhancement. So far, we have developed two prototypes, one for live video and another that works on saved video and photos. Both prototypes run on any gaming Windows PC with intel i7 processors and NVIDIA GTX 1060 card (or equivalent.)
*Images are computer generated demo versions. Product is still currently under development
The live video prototype works in a real-time and can process 720p video at 25 frames per second in real-time.
*Images are computer generated demo versions. Product is still currently under development
The “Offline prototype” can process videos up to 4k resolution and 60 frames per second. It is designed to quickly evolve as a very useful companion for underwater surveyors, marine archaeologists and biologists, oceanographers, forensic investigators, search and recovery teams, pipeline inspectors, and civil engineers for bridge and dam inspections. This utility works on video footage, single or multiple photos with only a few clicks to select the best fitting settings with the help of a preview window.
Lolaark Vision Inc. prototype software increases the visibility of a scene captured in live video mode, thus increasing navigational and operational safety, as well as overall performance efficiency. Integrating our technology as a real-time preprocessing step in a camera operating system will significantly improve the accuracy of your system.
Our goal is to advance these prototypes into software components suitable for implementing our algorithmic designs for higher resolutions up to 8K and high frame rates. Doing so, our aim is to make the technology flexible enough to function as a pre-processing software component for HD-camera clarity restoration for a number of dynamically growing industrial applications.
THE MARKET
The autonomous (driverless) car market is projected to generate $556.67 billion by 2026; In 2027, the video surveillance market is projected to be worth $144.85 billion. (Source)
The true beauty of our technology is its applicability across multi billion-dollar markets. Major industries such as transportation (e.g maritime assets and bridge inspections, self-driving cars, helicopters, and car auto-pilots), security, defense, and surveillance (UAVs, hyperspectral, infra-red, and HD-security cameras), manufacturing, healthcare (robotic surgeries), and even entertainment are adopting artificial intelligence based camera operations. This trend provides Lolaark Vision an incredible opportunity to establish itself across multiple industries. (Source)
WHY INVEST
AI based camera operations and remotely controlled missions are already becoming the norm across many industries, and they’re trending to become even more commonplace. Our unique and highly effective technology can greatly enhance the vision of cameras across several different industries, translating into healthy capital returns for investors. Invest in a trend-setter new company, Lolaark Vision Inc and share our vision, to make visible what is currently invisible.
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02.26.24
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Happy New Year to all of our investors and followers. I want to share with you some of our thoughts and news. Underwater Intervention 2023 which ended on Dec. 2nd proved to be a great promotion for us. Although, we are a still a new kid in the block, we attracted a lot of attention because we have integrated the Clarifier with reasonably priced underwater robots used primarily for inspections by solo operators and small inspection companies. This type of robots represents a rapidly growing market. The capital we raised here will be mainly invested in boosting sales to 25K in monthly sales by November 2024 and breaking even before November 2024. These are some of our plans. To approach the market effectively and promote our product we will use paid promotions and also advertise rentals with the full equipment provided. Our next goal is to modify the Clarifier for 4K resolutions, and downsize the hardware to be able to run it onboard a medium-sized drone. We have already started working on upscaling the Clarifier from 1080p the 4K resolution.
11.24.23
Come see the Lolaark Vision Clarifier's live demo in Underwater Intervention, November 29th-December 1st, New Orleans Convention Center. The Clarifier is a video processing software to increase x3-x4 visual clarity in real-time for up to 1080p video streams. The Clarifier is designed for murky waters. Compatible with select ethernet and all coaxial cable-connected cameras. Performance verified by ABS for murky waters. The Clarifier works topside so no new underwater equipment is needed. Booth UI-3854
This is the first time we demo the Clarifier with a Poseidon Robotics ROV. We showcase the connectivity and the new integrated control console of the Poseidon Robotics Lanai ROVs equipped with the Clarifier. The first order is due for shipping to Nigeria for an oil rig servicer.
11.14.23
A wildfire can be deadly if one loses their bearings. Having some visual references to drive around is vital. Thermal cameras offer a solution but it is mostly designed for those who have some expertise to use them and during an actual emergency the at-risk public may have one. Lolaark Vision has a solution that in the future and with some investment can possibly be turned into an app for cell phones. We clarify and enhance a video from the internet from 2018 shot by MegaraTV, a regional news TV station. The wildfire was in Kineta near Athens, Greece.
Watch the video on LinkedIn and connect with us.
10.11.23
"Flying" through heavy fog.
The Lolaark Vision Inc technology clarifies video streams corrupted by poor visibility conditions. We are now experimenting on how to adopt the technology for aerial drones. We also want to process 4K live video stream to enhance it and increase the visibility of various objects when the drone flies in hazy conditions. Here we simulate a "flight" during heavy fog in Houston. The location is the Memorial Hermann Hospital at 610 North Loop. The video is 1080p and processed with the Clarifier.
Watch our videos on LinkedIn and connect with Lolaark Vision
If you like to watch more try this one.
09.21.23
Our first product for underwater robots is now available for one of the biggest families of robots, the Blue ROVs of Blue Robotics. Blue Robotics introduced the inexpensive ROV business model that stormed the market. We currently secured one distributor for this product and we are working with other ROV and ROV camera manufacturers to make the Clarifier available as an add-on product for their cameras. We will be happy to tell you more about the marketing of the Clarifier in our Saturday Virtual Coffee and Cookies.
To join us for the Saturday coffee and cookies click the link “Join on the Web”. When: Saturday, Sept. 23rd, starting at 1130AM Central US time, 930AM Pacific time. Use Meeting ID: 261 337 090 045 Passcode: seifu7. Input these after you hit the link below.
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09.06.23
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08.20.23
The Clarifier ROV by Lolaark Vision cleans up the view of your ROV's live video stream in murky water. We just installed the first copy in a mini HP desktop, the G9 Elite mini with an NVDIA RTX 3050 GPU. The installation is for one Lanai by Poseidon Robotics LLC. The Clarifier ROV works with up to 1080p video and up to 30 frames per second depending on the GPU strength and PC RAM. We can customize it for all IP cameras with UDP and other protocol connections. We customize two cameras at this point but more will come: The Mission Robotics camera the Lanais carry and the classical Blue Robotcs camera. The Clarifier ROV shows one display only, the clarified and enhanced video. The product has been certified by ABS for low-visibility environments. The picture below is from OTC 2023. A Lanai was splashing the water in the display tank. We filmed it outside the tank with the Blue Robotics camera. Here you see the two panels of the conventional Clarifier, original left, right enhanced
06.21.23
Our first product the Clarifier for HD-SDI cameras is now ready for IP cameras. The first company to feature the Clarifier as an optional add-on is Poseidon Robotics. The first delivery is scheduled for July. The ROVs of Poseidon Robotics will carry the Clarifier as an add-on.
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05.23.23
Clarifier 1.0 is now in the market. We run live Clarifier demos during the Offshore Technology Conference 2023 in Houston Texas with a very good reception. Several exhibition visitors expressed their interest in acquiring the Clarifier. One of the strong marketing points is the recognition of the efficacy of the Clarifier in low-visibility aquatic environments. We currently market the Clarifier for HD-SDI cameras but very soon we will have the Clarifier ready for UDP-connected cameras used in smaller underwater robots.
04.05.23
Dear Investors and followers
On March 27th we reached a major milestone. We received a New Technology Qualification certificate for our Real-time Video Clarifier in the class of Remote Inspections Tech for marine applications. This is a great recognition for our company and for its premier software product.
Since August 2022, the Company started working on a third-party evaluation of the efficacy of our Real-time Video Clarifier. We approached the premier organization responsible for seaworthiness and marine safety certifications of commercial vessels, servicers, shipyards, and offshore marine structures serving the Oil & Gas industry, the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). Under the supervision and guidance of this organization, we completed a certification process for our 1080p real-time video clarifier as a software tool to clarify and enhance live video streaming in high-turbidity aqueous environments. ABS issued on March 27th, 2023, an official technology maturity statement considering the Lolaark Vision Real-time Video Clarifier as a Qualified Technology now ready to be integrated with remote inspection platforms such as ROVs. This is the highest level of qualification a software can achieve. The statement simply declares that the software has been reviewed and it works for the intended use. This statement certificate is the first ever to be issued for software like ours and most importantly, the statement verifies the clarifier’s suitability for low-visibility aqueous environments.
We will also publish a couple of videos from the demo underwater inspection witnessed by ABS representatives on December 6th 2022, in the Port of Galveston Texas at the Ryan Marine Facility. Texas Commercial Diving Inc provided the diving services.
This is the last update we will post on our campaign page on StartEngine. Our current investors receive a newsletter from us periodically. We will update you as the company continues its operations.
Those of you who would like to continue receiving our news and updates please send us an email at investors@lolaarkvision.com We have the email addresses of all of our current shareholders and we communicate with you via Constant Contact. Current investors should notify us of any changes to their email addresses by sending us an email to the above address. If you wish to keep following us but you are not an investor, please email us to investors@lolaarkvision.com
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Congratulations on your progress so far. May I ask what makes Lolaark differentiated against other image enhance software such as ZMicro, EyeQ, and LYYN?
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