2024: A Year of innovation and growth for Kognic

First and foremost, thank you to all our customers, partners, and friends of Kognic for your support this year. Together, we've successfully navigated a challenging year while launching exciting new features. We're seeing tremendous progress in parallel industries like Robotics and Manufacturing, areas we're eager to explore further in the coming year. In 2024, we also focused on market expansion, working diligently to bring the benefits of the Kognic platform to all businesses that need sensor-fusion capabilities.

As we close out the year, let's take a quarter-by-quarter look at our key achievements and developments.

Q1

We kicked off 2024 with a renewed focus on impactful features and valuable content for you

• Geometry Collections Launch: Introduced a game-changing feature enabling:
  • Total flexibility in object representation
  • Simplified annotation process with common ID grouping
  • Seamless representation across 2D and 3D spaces
• Auto-label Enhancement: Expanded support for bounding boxes and cuboids, with development for 3D OD, 2D lines & curves.

Q2

The spring brought significant improvements to our data management capabilities:

• Enhanced dataset filters: Implemented a new data structure and interface allowing:
  • Multi-sensor value filtering
  • Easier dataset-level property updates
  • Custom filter categories
  • Flexible histogram displays
• Annotation integration API: Launched a public gateway for ground truth production pipeline integration, featuring:
  • Automated quality control
  • Error detection
  • Generic workflow integration
• TISAX Certification: Achieved Assessment Level 3 compliance, reinforcing our commitment to data security and quality management

Q3

Summer and early fall focused on productivity and workflow improvements:

• Workspace Management Upgrade: Delivered enhanced navigation between workspaces and comprehensive data management capabilities
• Productivity Dashboards: Rebranded and improved our monitoring tools with:
  • Team Productivity dashboard with updated metrics
  • Enhanced User Productivity dashboard for QA task identification
• Auto-label Co-Pilot: Achieved breakthrough efficiency with:
  • Up to 68% reduction in annotation time
  • Intelligent frame identification
  • One-click fixes
  • Cross-frame interpolation
• Sequence Exploration: Launched new tools for:
  • Quick issue identification
  • Critical frame focusing
  • Workflow streamlining

Q4

We concluded the year with powerful technical enhancements:

• Tracking Assist 2.0: Introduced advanced algorithms for improved object tracking across sequences, specifically optimized for 5Hz+ scenes
• 3D Visualization Improvements:
  • Enhanced line and lane direction indicators
  • Reduced visual clutter
  • Improved multi-object scene clarity
• Road Modeling Features: Added new capabilities including:
  • Automatic centerline generation
  • Smooth lane connections
  • Support for various task types

Throughout the year, we've maintained active participation in industry leadership initiatives, including the Automated Driving Roundtables, helping shape AD regulations and contributing to the future of autonomous driving.

Looking ahead to 2025, we're excited to help you boost productivity and maximize your data investment. Kognic stands ready to deliver the critical value needed to future-proof your embodied AI projects. For now, we wish you restful holidays and quality time with your loved ones. See you in 2025!