AI pattern

Computer vision use cases

Models that interpret images or video, such as damage photos, identity documents or site inspections.

Use cases
15
Deployments
52
Organizations
52
Outcome disclosed
65%

15 Computer vision use cases

52 organizations in 17 countries run these use cases in public. 65% of those 52 deployments disclose a measurable outcome.

Telecommunications

AI agent for device and connectivity troubleshooting on voice and chat

An AI agent that diagnoses and fixes a customer's broadband, mobile, TV or device problem by conversation on the phone or in chat, running line tests and remote resets through the operator's systems, guiding the customer step by step, and booking an engineer or handing over to a technician when the fault needs a person.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Median containment rate
70%
3 deployments
BankingPayments and cards

AI assistant for digital account onboarding and KYC

A customer facing AI assistant that guides a new applicant, a person or a small merchant, through a digital account, card or relationship application: it collects and checks identity and supporting documents, orchestrates the know your customer and anti money laundering checks, prefills what it can and sends only the unclear cases to a human reviewer with a summary. The ownership research for complex corporate clients is a separate back office job.

Deployments
3 public, best grade C
Reported productivity gain
30x
M-DAQ Global, vendor claim
Cross industryGovernment and public sector

AI document intelligence for unstructured forms and documents

AI that takes documents in any format, such as scanned forms, PDFs, photos, emails and handwritten notes, splits and classifies them, extracts the required fields with a confidence score, validates them against business rules and source systems, and sends only the uncertain cases to a person before the data enters the downstream process.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Reported accuracy
at least 90%
Ancine, vendor claim
BankingPayments and cards

AI for application and identity fraud detection

AI that checks incoming account and loan applications for forged or AI generated documents, synthetic and stolen identities, and coordinated application rings, by analysing documents, device and application data across the whole queue and cross checking against bureau and official sources.

Deployments
6 public, best grade B
Reported detection improvement
2.5x
Department for Work and Pensions, organization claim
Logistics and transportationRetail and ecommerce

AI for customs classification and declaration preparation

AI that reads what is being shipped (the commercial invoice, the product data and sometimes a photo), proposes the tariff classification code with its reasoning and a confidence score, drafts the customs declaration with value, origin and parties, and sends only uncertain or high risk entries to a licensed customs specialist before filing.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Reported automation rate
90%
United Parcel Service, organization claim
Insurance

AI for insurance claims fraud detection

AI that scores every insurance claim for fraud from first notice of loss onwards, combining claim, policy, document, image and network data to find suspicious claims, organised rings and inflated losses, and sends each alert with its reasons to a claims handler or special investigations unit for review.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Insurance

AI for photo based damage assessment in insurance claims

Computer vision that assesses damage from photos or video of a vehicle or property taken by the policyholder, a repairer or an adjuster, identifies the damaged parts and the repair or replace decision, produces or checks the repair estimate, and flags total losses and inconsistencies for a person to review.

Deployments
5 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Media and entertainment

AI metadata tagging and indexing for media archives

AI that watches and listens to a broadcaster's or publisher's video and audio archive and generates rich, structured metadata, such as what is shown, who appears, spoken content, on screen text, logos and objects, so that content makers can find and reuse footage through natural language search instead of relying on the sparse, inconsistent tags an archive accumulated by hand over decades.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Copilot
Logistics and transportation

AI predictive maintenance for freight rail rolling stock

Machine vision and machine learning that inspect freight railcar wheels, bearings and other running gear as trains pass wayside sensors and camera portals at track speed, learn what a healthy wheel or a healthy reading looks like, and flag the ones that need attention before a crack, an overheating bearing or a worn wheel causes a service failure or a derailment.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Healthcare

AI prioritization of radiology and imaging worklists

An AI system that analyzes a medical image immediately after a scan, flags time sensitive findings such as a brain bleed, a stroke causing large vessel occlusion or a pulmonary embolism, and reorders the radiologist's worklist and notifies the care team so the most urgent cases are read and acted on first, while a radiologist confirms every finding before it changes a patient's treatment.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Reported cycle time reduction
about 44%
Adventist Health + Rideout, vendor claim
Retail and ecommerceCross industry

AI product content and catalog enrichment for online retail

AI that writes and repairs product content at catalog scale: it drafts titles, descriptions and image alt text, and extracts missing attributes such as color, size and material from supplier text and product images, then checks its own output before the content is published to the store and to search engines. A human owns the rules, the quality thresholds and the exceptions.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Reported quality score uplift
40%
Amazon, organization claim
ManufacturingAutomotive

AI quality inspection on the production line

AI that inspects every unit on a production line, from camera images, sound or machine process data, to find defects, missing parts and wrong variants in real time, and routes the few anomalies it flags to a quality inspector instead of relying on manual sampling at the end of the line.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Reported cost reduction
7%
Pegatron, vendor claim
Cross industryManufacturing

AI quote and estimate generation from customer requirements

AI that turns what a customer sends, such as a product list, a drawing, a roof photo or a request for quotation, into a draft quote: it reads the input, matches items to the catalog, calculates quantities and applies the organization's price rules, and hands the draft to a seller or estimator who checks and sends it.

Deployments
3 public, best grade C
Reported handling time reduction
87.5%
Enpal, vendor claim
Energy and utilities

AI vegetation management for power lines

AI that analyses satellite, aerial or lidar imagery of the land along power lines to estimate where and how fast vegetation will grow into the lines or fall onto them, and turns that into a risk based trimming and hazard tree removal plan, replacing fixed trimming cycles and manual patrols.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Copilot
Travel and hospitalityMedia and entertainment

AI visitor and tour guide for cities, museums and events

A location and context aware AI guide, often spoken, that tells visitors of cities, museums, heritage sites and events the stories behind what is around them and answers their questions in their own language, grounded in the organization's curated content and in the visitor's position or the object they scan.

Deployments
4 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Autonomous

What the evidence says

Computed from the 52 public deployments behind these use cases. Numbers update with every checked record.

Benchmarks with at least 3 pooled values

Benchmarks across Computer vision use cases
KPIMedianReported rangeData pointsClaimed by
Containment rate70%
44% to 73%
31 organization, 2 vendor
Deployments by stage
  • Announced
    1
  • Pilot
    1
  • Production
    36
  • Scaled
    14
Public deployments by region
  • Europe
    17
  • North America
    14
  • Asia Pacific
    10
  • Global
    7
  • Latin America
    3
  • Middle East
    1

Organizations with a public deployment

AXA Switzerland, Admiral Seguros, Adventist Health + Rideout, Albo, Amazon, Ancine, Art Basel, Assurant, Audi, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, BCU, BMW Group, BNSF Railway, Bloomberg Connects, CNG Holdings, Close Brothers Motor Finance, Covéa, DHL Express, DeAcero, Department for Work and Pensions, Deutsche Bank, Enpal, Entergy, Etsy, Foyer, General Insurance Association of Singapore, Lemonade, M-DAQ Global, Madrid Destino, National Gallery Singapore, National Grid, Norfolk Southern, PZU, Payoneer, Pegatron, Pupuk Indonesia, Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE), Sheba Medical Center, Singtel, Telstra, The ODP Corporation, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United Parcel Service, Virgin Media O2, Vodafone, Vodafone Germany, Volvo Group, Walmart, ZLS Zoll und Logistikservice GmbH, eBay.