Our story began over 12 years ago when the Helmstaedter lab at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research reached out to us at scalable minds. The Helmstaedter lab was working on Connectomics projects to understand the neural wiring of the mammalian brain, which involved handling multi-terabyte 3D electron microscopy image datasets. To extract insights from this vast amount of data, collaboration among many annotators was essential. However, with no online tools available, the lab had to send out hard drives to distribute the work among annotators. This challenge led us to start developing WEBKNOSSOS in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute.
We are a team of professional software and data engineers based in Potsdam, Germany. We designed the data streaming infrastructure, enabling fast data browsing in even the largest image datasets. With high-performance GPU-based rendering, we made the unique flight mode for fast neurite annotation possible. We continue to actively develop WEBKNOSSOS, adding new features every month. Additionally, we develop machine learning pipelines for large-scale segmentations and have been passionate about AI and its possibilities for over 10 years. Our services include image alignment, training data generation, image segmentation, connectome reconstruction, and more.