Germany-based, Brigther AI offers advanced redaction software for images & video data (so they can be safely used across borders or even in public without raising privacy concerns). The startups does this with “Precision Blur” to detect & blurs objects (e.g. face, license plate, characters), as well as “Deep Natural Anonymization” to detect faces & generate a synthetic replacement (that reflects the original attributes) – via cloud & rest API (prices start from €80p.m. for 500 images or 120min video). Brighter AI is already used to generate anonymized footage in e.g. a) automotive & mapping (e.g. autonomous driving data, vehicle & road data, dashcam footage) (clients incl. Valeo: “for improvement of lane & sign detection validation strategy”), b) healthcare (e.g. teleconsultation, patient tracking, user experience & machine testing, general research) (customers incl. Stryker), c) public sector (e.g. public transport providers, police & law enforcement, universities, smart city) (clients incl. Deutsche Bahn: “using existing camera infrastructure for intelligent video analytics in trains & stations, as well as the development of autonomous trains”). Brighter AI was founded in 2017 by Marian Glaeser (CEO) & Patrick Kern (CTO) as a spin-off from top 50 global automotive supplier Hella (which also runs a CVC called Hella Ventures). It’s worth noting that Brighter AI software – which, based on publicly available Caltech data sets, has a detection accuracy of 99% for license plates & 97% for faces – has received the European Privacy Seal. <Source: techfundingnews.com, photonics.com, startbase.com, invision-news.de>
