24. IMAGEFINDER SUPPORT SERVICE PACKAGES24.1 What is Support Service?
24.2 What is a Feasibility Study?
24.3 ImageFinder Services
24. ImageFinder Support Service Packages
Attrasoft's ImageFinder Services are designed to accelerate a company's path to deploy Image Recognition Solutions. Our structured Service Offerings help you to develop your products/services with the ImageFinder as a component.
ImageFinder Support Service Packages are designed to help a company to understand the process of integrating Image Recognition technology into their product/service. From a large set of possible paths, a company must plan the most realistic execution to ensure the success of the project.
The focus of Support Service is to follow the right development path and shorten the learning curve for developers. Based on dozens of past projects, Attrasoft's development experience will specify the required work and map the shortest path to the system integration; most importantly, Attrasoft Services might prevent you from following a wrong path; thus save you from unnecessary waste of resources, even failure of the project.
System Integration with the ImageFinder as a component has two basic approaches:
- ImageFinder for Dos (Dos Command Line version of the ImageFinder)
- Attrasoft TransApplet (Library)
The ImageFinder Support Service is divided into several levels:Level Cost #Images
0 NA NA
1 $1,000 100
2 $5,000 1,000
3 $10,000 1,000
4 $20,000 1,000
5 TBA 1,000
24.2 What is a Feasibility Study?
Attrasoft technology offers a suite of products (Off-the-Shelf ImageFinder, ImageFinder for Dos, TransApplet (Library version of the ImageFinder), Customized-ImageFinder, Customized-Dos Version, Customized-TransApplet) that enables the success of projects a company will develop with Attrasoft components.
A Feasiblilty Study is very valuable because experience from many past projects will be naturally deployed into your project. The very first question we encountered, and you will be asked when you justify your project to your company, is 'Can this be done?' Very often, the answer is more than a simple "Yes"; a feasibility study will be necessary to respond this question, which is further divided into a Preliminary Assessment with 100 images and a Feasibility Study with 1,000 images.
With ImageFinder Level 0 Service (that comes with the purchase of the ImageFinder), you can:
- Get help for Installing and Running the software, such as how to obtain Microsoft .Net Framework and "J# .Net Redistributable".
- Get Help on how to operate the software by running examples in the ImageFinder and trying some of your own examples.
- Evaluate the ImageFinder and justify a product/service development opportunity to your organization based on the Preliminary Evaluation, if such a project is not already in place. The Preliminary Evaluation is usually based on a few of your own images.
- Select a Service Package based on your need.
With ImageFinder Level 1 Service ($1,000), you can:
- Set an implementation roadmap based on dozens of past Attrasoft projects. Attrasoft's development experience will specify the required work and map the shortest path to the System Integration; most importantly, Attrasoft Services might prevent you from following a wrong path.
- Develop a Miniature Proof-of-Concept Demo using the ImageFinder for your internal justification purposes based on 100 images. The 100 images should result in 10,000 comparisons in an N: N Matching; thus promote confidence and gather internal support from your company.
- Define necessary performance requirements as defined by several variables in the ImageFinder.
With ImageFinder Level 2 Service ($5,000), in addition to Level 1 Service, you can:
- Get Help to finalize an implementation road map as more information is gathered;
- Develop a Proof-of-Concept (Feasibility) Demo using the ImageFinder, which will specify all of the parameters to be used in the final product/services. 1,000 images will be used in the Feasibility Study, resulting in 1,000,000 comparisons in an N: N Matching.
With ImageFinder Level 3 Service ($10,000/year), in addition to Level 2 Service, you can:
- Get Consultation Help from Attrasoft throughout your entire Development Phase, from device setup, data collection, layered approach, up to the System Integration, ensuring smooth development.
In all of the above cases, the Off-the-Shelf ImageFinder is used.However, from time to time because projects using Image Recognition are Pioneer Initiatives, it is sometimes necessary to make minor modifications to the ImageFinder; sometimes, a major effort will be necessary for the Proof-of-Concept Study.
With ImageFinder Level 4 Service ($20,000), in addition to Level 3 Service, you can:
- Get a Customized ImageFinder with Minor Programming Efforts (<500 non-recurring engineering hours) for one or more of the following reasons:
· Reducing the Operation Complexity via Attrasoft tuning the Parameters to one specific image type;
· Speed Optimization;
· Internal Structure Optimization;
· Data Input Optimization via preprocessed data rather raw data;
· Graphical User Interface Customization;
· Neural Network Module and structure Customization;
· Memory Optimization (For some problems, the RAM consumption can be reduced by 80%);
· Database Interface;
· New Image Preprocessing Filters;
· Programming Library;
· Specific Symmetries or Combination of Symmetries;
· Fine Tuning of the Neural Parameters;
· Digital Image Database (Combine ImageFinder with Database);
· Image Formats other than jpg and gif;
· Internet Image Search Engines;
· Multi-Layers of Image Matching;
· Web Interface (solutions that will provide users with a searchable database using a Web Interface);
· Other Specific Needs.
With ImageFinder Level 5 Service (TBA), in addition to Level 4 Service, you can:
- Get a Customized ImageFinder that requires Major Programming Efforts.
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