(BEIJING, June 21, 2019) – At the 2019 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), a prestigious annual computer vision event held in Long Beach, California,

The exhibition booth of Megvii

Megvii secured a total of six first places, outperforming leading industry players at home and abroad, including Facebook, General Dynamics, and Daimler. It participated in three challenges, namely WAD (Workshop on Autonomous Driving), FGVC (Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization), and NTIRE (New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop).Technologies deployed as part of these challenges spanned fields such as autonomous driving, new retail, smartphones, 3D technology, and machine learning.

Brain++, Megvii’s proprietary deep learning framework, played a pivotal role in these challenges. It functions as a unified underlying architecture providing critical support for Megvii’s algorithm training and model improvement processes. Brain++ enables Megvii to build a semi-automatic algorithm production line that is constantly self-improving and becoming more automatic over time.

Megvii’s mission is to power humanity with AI. In collaboration with industry leaders, Megvii is accelerating the deployment of cutting-edge technology solutions, creating an optimal environment for business transformation and industrial upgrades. Megvii’s powerful platform software connects, controls and coordinates a large network of hardware that integrates seamlessly with different software applications, enabling intelligent, digitalized management across a variety of different business scenarios. Megvii will continue lead the way in industrial AIoT and deliver tangible value to customers by offering tailored, integrated technology solutions.

About Megvii Technology Limited

Megvii is a world-class AI company with core competencies in deep learning. Founded in Beijing in 2011 by Yin Qi, Tang Wenbin and Yang Mu, three Tsinghua University graduates who studied under the Turing-prize winning Chinese computer scientist and computational theorist Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Megvii is a pioneer in applying AI technology and computer vision algorithms to Internet of Things (IoT) use cases. The Company’s mission is to power humanity with AI. 

Megvii’s first commercialized AI product was a facial recognition solution. The Company has developed its proprietary deep learning framework Brain++, which functions as a unified underlying architecture and provides critical support tailored for the Company’s algorithm training and model improvement processes. 

Leveraging its strong software-hardware integration capabilities, Megvii offers full stack solutions to its customers, and has achieved leading positions in several key vertical markets, including personal IoT, city IoT and supply chain IoT. Megvii is building an AI infrastructure to connect and empower various IoT devices, to solve real life problems and pain points encountered by customers in sectors including fintech, transportation, logistics and others. Megvii is dedicated to helping customers achieve specific goals such as user authentication and fraud reduction, traffic optimization, and labor efficiency gains. 

Headquartered in Beijing with over 2,000 employees, Megvii maintains four research and development centers in China.

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