What is Lightly?
Lightly is a powerful computer vision suite designed to help ML teams build better vision systems. Whether you're working on retail, agriculture, or automotive projects, Lightly offers tools to curate, label, and manage your data efficiently. With features like self-supervised pretraining, smart data capturing, and seamless integration into existing ML pipelines, Lightly helps you move faster and more effectively with your AI models.
What are the features of Lightly?
- LightlyStudio: Curate, label, and manage your data in one place.
- LightlyTrain: Pretrain your vision models using self-supervised learning, no labels needed.
- LightlyEdge: Optimize AI data collection at the edge, collecting high-value data in real time.
- LightlySSL: A self-supervised learning framework for research.
- LabelFormat: An open-source tool to convert between popular computer vision label formats.
What are the use cases of Lightly?
- Retail: Optimize visual data for smarter product detection, shelf analytics, and inventory monitoring.
- Agriculture: Improve crop health insights and automate yield analysis with better training data for vision models.
- Automotive: Fuel safer perception systems for autonomous driving with curated, real-world visual datasets.
- Defense: Enhance mission-critical AI models with precise, reliable visual data selection and filtering.
- Government: Support infrastructure, public safety, and AI projects with compliant, high-quality image datasets.
- Manufacturing: Boost defect detection and quality control by training computer vision models on curated datasets.
- Healthcare: Advance medical AI by selecting high-quality imaging data that improves model pretraining for diagnostics and monitoring.
- Security: Strengthen surveillance and anomaly detection systems with targeted, efficient visual data curation and model pretraining.
How to use Lightly?
- Sign up for Lightly: Create an account to access all the tools and features.
- Upload Your Data: Import your images and videos into LightlyStudio for curation and labeling.
- Pretrain Your Models: Use LightlyTrain to pretrain your vision models with self-supervised learning.
- Optimize Edge Data Collection: Integrate LightlyEdge into your edge devices to collect high-value data in real time.
- Manage and Label Data: Use LightlyStudio to curate, label, and manage your datasets efficiently.
- Deploy and Monitor: Deploy your models and monitor their performance with Lightly’s integrated tools.















