Case Study: Hummingbird Technologies scales precision crop labeling with CloudFactory

Hummingbird Technologies grows data labeling capacity 6x with CloudFactory

Hummingbird Technologies, a precision agriculture platform, faced the challenge of scaling its AI model development for new crops and geographies. The highly specific task of annotating individual plants in drone and satellite imagery was too time-consuming for its internal data scientists to handle alone. This bottleneck prevented them from being more ambitious with their datasets and expanding their product line efficiently. They turned to CloudFactory and its Computer Vision Managed Workforce service to overcome this obstacle.

CloudFactory provided a dedicated team of annotators who were trained to handle the domain-specific work through continuous communication and feedback. This partnership freed Hummingbird's internal resources and allowed them to undertake large-scale annotation projects, such as a 400-hour lettuce plant sizing initiative. As a result, Hummingbird Technologies achieved a 6x growth in data labeling capacity, supported 7 crop products, and expanded its services into new international markets, helping farmers increase agrochemical efficiency by 20-30% on average.

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