SOLUTION
AUTOSCAN
Mobile and automated tool for detection and classification of hail-damage on vehicles
AutoScan Precision made simple
TECHNOLOGY
SENSOR
Autoscan detects, measures and labels dents. It also automatically locates dents on the correct body panel
DATA RECORDING
CLOUD-VIDEO
High-definition videos can be accessed through the cloud for further handling of the claim
RESULT
VISUALIZATION
Detected damages can be reviewed easily and even zoomed in with a digital magnifier
VIDEO
EXPLANATION
Leading the way in vehicle scanning.
100000
HAILSTORM DAMAGES DETECTED
3
SECOND SCAN
70%
OR MORE
VIDEO
STORY
BACKGROUND OF
THE INVENTION
Hailstorms, which are unpredictable local natural events, often cause damage to vast number of motor vehicles. As a consequence, insurance experts must check all the damaged vehicles, by visually inspecting the surface damage on each vehicle. This manual way of damage inspection on each vehicle is tedious and slow and prone to mistakes, yet it has to be performed quickly because of the vast amount of damaged vehicles after natural calamities, such as hailstorms.
These manual estimations of surface damages are generally inaccurate. Inaccurate estimations of damages lead to wrong cost prediction for insurances, and also encourage repair workshops to report more damage repairs per vehicle than the actual amount of damage. Automated digital systems for damage detection such as Autoscan can save significant work for insurance experts and significant costs for insurances, by performing a faster and more accurate identification of damages and preventing possible abuses due to inaccurate damage estimations.
The high-definition videos showing the damages on the surface of the vehicle are stored in a cloud repository, and represent a tangible and objective proof of such surface damages.
DAMAGE ESTIMATED IN
3 – 5 MINUTES
All potential damages are tracked in high-definition videos. Tracking, identification and sizing of damages is performed by a sophisticated software algorithm, which provides an accurate detection by matching consecutive video frames and by automatically taking into account the speed of movement and the outer dimensions of the vehicle.
All detected surface damages are converted from digital pixel units to actual physical unit size and classified according to size.
Scanning a vehicle with the Autoscan system takes around 3-5 seconds. After that scanning time, the next vehicle can already be scanned. Each scan is then processed by the Autoscan algorithm to calculate dent sizes and recognize the corresponding body panel. When the algorithm is used, the result is available after 3-5 minutes of processing time. There is also the option to scan all damaged vehicles in a batch, and to run the algorithm at a later time on the stored videos to identify and classify all the damages.