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Computer Vision Workflow Enhancement – Image Restoration with ProHawk
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Introduction

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Introduction

  • Organizations from every industry are in a digital race to turn data into insights that produce better business outcomes. With the right technology investments, video and other data being generated at the network edge can now be correlated with traditional centralized data networks. These new technology options open up many opportunities for creating higher-value business outcomes such as improving enterprise-wide situational awareness, tracking customer flow in retail or optimizing supply chains. The evolution of AI based Computer Vision is a key technology shift opening up these new possibilities for improved business outcomes Progress towards reaching these goals, however, can be impeded when design and operational complexities are not controlled. Camera deployment proliferation, the transition to high-resolution video, and the demand for extended retention policies drive ever-increasing storage and analytics workload demands. This can overwhelm systems with poor designs that do not adequately address scaling and management capabilities.

    Given the vast array of technology options available, many organizations seek guidance on matching a suitable system to the proper workflows to achieve the desired outcomes. That is where Dell Technologies comes into play. Given technological advances and decades of operational experience, Dell computer vision solutions are now playing a central role in the efforts of many organizations to achieve faster time to value.

    Dell Technologies is pioneering a move away from narrow-scoped technology and platform solutions. In March 2022, we released the design of a platform architecture that can support an integrated set of Computer Vision (CV) and Video Management System (VMS) software applications that all work together with the hardware to achieve those outcomes. The platform includes a complete set of modern hyperconverged hardware and software familiar to the IT industry. The compute resources are Dell PowerEdge servers in a VxRail configured offering using Intel processors and NVIDIA GPUs. VMware vSphere manages the VxRail cluster plus the Tanzu Cloud Native Application Platform is available where needed. This platform design produced a flexible and robust starting point for subsequent Dell Validated Designs for Computer Vision.

    In this technical white paper, we describe our lab testing and validation of the ProHawk Vision and the Milestone XProtect Smart Client Plugin. ProHawk Vision turns noisy, obscured, or unclear images and videos into sharp, clear images and video with restored details. The Milestone XProtect Smart Client Plugin integrates seamlessly into Milestone XProtect to make ProHawk functionality available during playback.

    We demonstrate once again how a core platform of integrated components used in the Dell Technologies Validated Design for Computer Vision can host a wide variety of VMS, CV, and video workflow enhancements. Our flexible designs can meet the needs of large and small organizations from a wide variety of public sector and commercial use cases.