carsales.com
Winning Year(s): 2018
Industry: Technology
Awards and Accolades:
- 2018 Best Internal Innovation
2018 Innovation Name: Cyclops
Awards: 27th Most Innovative Company
Employees: 500+
The Cyclops, AI-assisted image recognition tool, eliminates 55 hours of manual handling of approximately 20,000 daily vehicle images by carsales staff. Plus improves the vehicle identification process for private and dealer customers, increasing accuracy and speed. No manual look-up, users just photograph the back of a car to identify it. The Cyclops is technology invented by employees at carsales.com.au, Australia’s No.1 website to buy and sell cars. The Cyclops is Artificial Intelligence computer software, it automatically recognise and organises photos uploaded to carsales.com.au website or app by people selling a car, without human help.
The Cyclops rarely makes mistakes, if it does it learns to fix them via a machine learning tool. The Cyclops speeds up the process of uploading images and eliminates human errors, like incorrect details about vehicles been entered in car ads by people, the Cyclops does this job for people by sourcing information from previously uploaded images.