ibm-maximo-visual-inspection

IBM Maximo Visual Inspection 1.3.0

Overview

IBM Maximo Visual Inspection, formerly PowerAI Vision, is a video/image analysis platform that offers built-in deep learning models that learn to analyze images and video streams for classification and object detection.

IBM Maximo Visual Inspection includes tools and interfaces that allow anyone with limited skills in deep learning technologies to get up and running quickly and easily. And because IBM Visual Insights is built on open source frameworks for modeling and managing containers it delivers a highly available platform that includes application life-cycle support, centralized management and monitoring, and support from IBM.

What's new?

IBM PowerAI Vision is now IBM Maximo Visual Inspection

To accommodate the diversity of infrastructures used for AI solutions, IBM has expanded support of its award-winning software beyond POWER architectures to include Intel platforms. To avoid confusion in the marketplace, IBM PowerAI Vision has been renamed IBM Maximo Visual Inspection. In addition to its current functions, IBM Maximo Visual Inspection 1.3.0 now offers:

• Support on x86-based servers with GPUs for training and inference
• Availability on IBM Cloud as a client-managed service

In addition:

• The installation location has changed from /opt/powerai-vision to an IBM standard location: /opt/ibm/vision
• Runtime tools have removed powerai- from the tool names. For example, vision-start.sh
• Runtime Docker container and Kubernetes pod names have removed powerai- from the name

Technology updates and features

IBM Maximo Visual Inspection 1.3.0 builds upon previous releases of PowerAI Vision, and includes the following updates and features:

• Platform support expanded:
  • Training and Inference on x86 servers with Nvidia GPU acceleration. Full feature parity – model support and function.
  • Inference Server support parity on x86. Support for SSD object detection model deployment.
  • IBM Cloud beta deployment.
• Enhanced post-processing support: Automatic population of data set with inference results.
• Update of User Interface: IBM Carbon X - improved support for tablet format.
• Improved handling of phone images: EXIF processing/rotation on image load.

For all the details, see the What’s New topic in the IBM Knowledge Center.

Key features

• Streamlined model training
  Use existing models that are already trained as starting point to reduce the time required to train models and improve trained results.
• Single-click model deployment
  After you create a training model, deploy an API with one click. You can then develop applications based on the model that you deployed.
• Data set management and labeling
  Manage both raw and labeled data.
• Video object detection and labeling assistance
  Videos that you import can be scanned for objects and the objects can be automatically labeled.
• Supported hardware
  • POWER8 S822LC (8335-GTB) or POWER9 AC922 with at least one NVIDIA NVLink capable GPU
  • POWER9 IC922 with at least one NVIDIA T4 GPU
  • x86 system with at least one NVIDIA Pascal, Volta, or Turing-architecture GPU
  • 64 GB of memory
• Supported operating systems
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) RHEL 7.6 ALT (little endian) for POWER9™
  • Ubuntu 18.04 or later
  • RHEL 7.7 for x86
• Planning information and considerations
• Install information
  • Installation prerequisites
  • Installing IBM Maximo Visual Inspection stand-alone
  • Installing IBM Maximo Visual Inspection with IBM Cloud Private
  • Upgrading to IBM Maximo Visual Inspection
• Training and working with models

Find everything you need to know about installing, configuring, and managing IBM Maximo Visual Inspection in the IBM Knowledge Center

Give it a try

• Download a 90-day limited evaluation of IBM Maximo Visual Inspection for POWER or for x86

IIBM Maximo Visual Inspection code patterns, tutorials, and learning paths

Check out these real world examples and tutorials that highlight IBM Maximo Visual Inspection in action.

• Automate your video analysis
• Automate visual recognition model training
• Load IBM Maximo Visual Inspection inference results in a dashboard
• Build an object detection model to identify license plates from images of cars
• Develop analytical dashboards for AI projects with IBM Maximo Visual Inspection
• Build and deploy an IBM Maximo Visual Inspection model and use it in an iOS app
• Moving AI from the Data Center to Edge or Fog Computing
• Detect objects with IBM Maximo Visual Inspection
• Vision TensorRT inference samples
• Introduction to computer vision using IBM Maximo Visual Inspection
• Vision TensorRT inference samples
• Enabling distributed AI for quality inspection in manufacturing with edge computing
• Building out the edge in the application layer and device layer
• Introduction to computer vision
• Implementing an edge computing architecture
• Learning path: Getting started with IBM Maximo Visual Inspection

Requesting enhancements for IBM Maximo Visual Inspection

The IBM Request for Enhancement (RFE) tool is now available for you to submit formal enhancement requests to the IBM Maximo Visual Inspection development team. One of the benefits of using the RFE tool is that other clients can vote on submitted requirements, which helps IBM to prioritize requests.

Get started

Go here get started: ibm.biz/vision-rfe

The RFE for IBM Visual Insights pages are part of IBM Developer and require that you sign in with an IBM ID to submit or vote on a request. You should make sure that your IBM ID profile includes your current company and your email address to ensure that we can contact you if we have questions.

Search first

Once on the RFE page, click on the “Search” tab to view existing requests before you submit a new request. It is much more useful to vote for a previously submitted request than to submit a duplicate request.