3D point cloud classification made smart, fast, and accessible.
Pointly is an intelligent, cloud-based B2B software solution to manage and classify big data in 3D point clouds.
Point clouds are used for many purposes, including creating 3D CAD models for manufactured parts, metrology and quality inspection, and a multitude of visualization, animation, rendering, and mass customization applications.
Our innovative AI techniques enable an accelerated manual classification of data points within point clouds – making it faster and more precise for you than ever before.
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Key Features.
Explore the Pointly benefits
On average, we can reduce the working time for object selection from one day to one click, giving you more time for priority tasks.
The graphical user interface is structured, well organized and offers quick access to all functions.
Thanks to customizable views and the implementation of common industry standards, you will always find your way through even the most sizeable 3D point clouds.
Pointly uses Microsoft’s fast, flexible and secure Azure Cloud Computing Services. The parallel processing architecture allows elastic and independently scalable processing of even extensive amounts of data.
Pointly relies on state-of-the-art visualization engines capable of displaying point clouds with up to billions of points.
The browser-based application allows continuous zooming and seamless changing of detail levels.
Your data is safe with us. Building on Azure’s 256-bit AES encryption standard and advanced threat protection, we protect your information whether in storage or transit.
Your user identity is managed through Azure B2C and ensures that only you have access to your data.
Everything you need to use Pointly is Internet access and a browser. No installation is required – simply sign up and benefit from the power of cloud storage and computing.
There is no need to invest in building data centers, external hardware, or maintenance. “Point out what matters to you,” right out of the box.
Why Pointly?
Pointly can help you to not only accelerate and simplify your annotation work, but make it fun. What else?
Pointly is independent of the point cloud type (LiDAR, sonar, photogrammetric point clouds or otherwise generated point clouds work just fine), giving you ultimate flexibility.
With Pointly, you can create any class you like. Thus, you can customize your class catalog and generate training data for your specific AI project.
It’s made for everyone, whether you have already experience with classification work or not. Pointly is easy to use.
Pointly is cloud-based, so there’s no need for you to waste time and money on infrastructure and maintenance.
Made for professionals.
Companies in the following industries benefit from using Pointly:
- Agriculture and forestry
- Supply network operator
- Power lines
- Real estate
- Public transport services
- Insurance
- Manufacturing
- Construction
- Public sector
- Asset management
- Planning and surveying
- Robotics
- Automotive
- Warehouse logistics
- Mining
- Digital forensics
- Archaeology and museums
How it works.
Take these four main steps to finish your first point cloud classification work:
1) Create customized Class Catalogs and link them to new projects
2) Upload your .las/.laz files to Pointly via its Upload Dialog and check their status in your Upload Manager.
3) Start to label your point clouds manually. Pointly’s easy-to-use selection tools accelerate this task and make it easy and fun.
4) Export your point clouds as .las/.laz and use them in your project
Success Story.
“Modern surveying technologies (laser scanning, drone flights etc.) allow the recording of high-precision 3D point clouds from existing construction sites. With the help of this data and by using Pointly, construction sites can be better organized and processes can be monitored and improved.”
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Dr. Dirk Ebersbach
Managing Director at VIA IMC GmbH
“Thanks to the developed 3D Deep Learning based point cloud classification by Pointly Services we are now able to classify ground points with higher accuracy than before, leading to more precise elevation models. Pointly can detect additional objects like powerlines and vehicles for us which allows to filter for specific changes. Recurring tasks such as the inventory of georeferenced objects and the recording of terrain changes become easier and more efficient.
What stands out the most to us is Pointly’s adaptability – the new approach can learn continuously. Thus, any manual correction to the automatic classification (if necessary at all) improves the process for future applications.”
Dipl. Ing. Andreas Schlienkamp
Group Leader Remote Sensing at RAG Aktiengesellschaft
BLOG.
Multi-User – Work together easily with shared projects
With the Multi-User functionalities in Pointly, you can work together with multiple users and simultaneously on projects and contained point clouds. By working in parallel within a Multi-User project, you can manage the classification process and introduce quality assurance workflows.
Tags for point clouds – Categorize your point clouds
Custom tags for point clouds are free text fields, to tag the point cloud and/or comment on the point clouds to categorize them. For example you could tag all point clous that have the same characteristic with the same tag, like “LiDAR”.
Locking Classes – Lock and Unlock Classes while Classifying
The Locking classes feature can make the classification process more efficient. If point clouds were uploaded pre-classified these existing classification can be locked to not overwrite them. In this tutorial we show how to apply the Looking Class Feature to individual and all classes.
Developed by Experts.
Geo Data Science Technology
made in Germany
Pointly is a spin-off of Supper & Supper GmbH from Germany. The company is one of the leading full-service data science service providers in the country and develops customized solutions in the areas of machine learning, artificial intelligence, process optimization and digital transformation.
This Project is supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag.