Author

Ulrik Stig Hansen

Ulrik is the President & Co-Founder of Encord. Ulrik started his career in the Emerging Markets team at J.P. Morgan. Ulrik holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Imperial College London.

In his spare time, Ulrik enjoys writing ultra-low latency software applications in C++ and enjoys experimental sushi making.

Ulrik Stig Hansen

All blogs by Ulrik Stig Hansen

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CustomersLogisticsRetail & E-Commerce
Training Computer Vision Models to Track Rented Assets

6 m

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CustomersHealthcare
Using Computer Vision to Prevent Falls in Care Homes and Hospitals

7 m

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Encord at ICLR 2025
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CustomersAgricultureGenerative AI
Accurately Measuring Carbon Content in Forests
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CustomersPhysical AILogisticsHuman safety
Finding a Reliable Ecosystem to Scale Model Development
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CustomersHealthcare
How Harvard Medical School and MGH Cut Down Annotation Time and Model Errors with Encord
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CustomersPhysical AIAgriculture
Transforming Fruit and Vegetable Harvesting & Analytics with Computer Vision
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CustomersHealthcare
Accelerating Diagnosis to Treatment with Encord
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Meet Mavis - Product Design Lead at Encord
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Meet Rad - Head of Engineering at Encord

3 m

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Recap 2024 - An Epic Foundational Year 
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5 Ways to Improve The Quality of Labeled Data

8 m

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Recap: AI After Hours - Physical AI (Special Edition)
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Providing Computer Vision Infrastructure for Project Stormcloud

2 m

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Spirit LM: Meta AI’s Multimodal Model for Seamless Text and Speech Generation
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What the European AI Act Means for AI Developers

30 m

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Exploring Google DeepMind's Latest AI Innovations: Gemini 2.0, Veo 2, and Imagen 3
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SAM 2.1 Explained: Smarter Segmentation and Developer Tools For the Future
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Generative AI is overrated, long live old-school AI!

5 m

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The Full Guide to Outsourcing Data Labeling for Machine Learning

12 m

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Object Detection: Models, Use Cases, Examples

4 m

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How to Start a Computer Vision Startup

10 m

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6 Use Cases for Computer Vision in Insurance

10 m

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Key Insights from the Inaugural AI After Hours
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What the European AI Act Means for You, AI Developer [Updated December 2023]

11 m

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Why AI Is the Mother of All Unicorns

4 m

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What Is Computer Vision In Machine Learning

5 m

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Encord as a Step Up from CVAT + Voxel51: Why Teams Are Making the Switch
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What is Embodied AI? A Guide to AI in Robotics
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The Full Guide to Training Datasets for Machine Learning

10 m

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A Guide to Speaker Recognition: How to Annotate Speech
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CustomersLogisticsSmart cities
Boosting Last-mile Model Performance: Increase mAP by 20% while reducing your dataset size by 35% with intelligent visual data curation
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CustomersSports
Rapid Annotation & Flexible Ontology for a Sports Tech Startup

10 m

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CustomersHealthcare
How King's College London used Encord to annotate videos 6.4x faster

3 m

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CustomersHealthcare
How Surgical Data Science Collective (SDSC) Conducted Video Annotation 10x Faster
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CustomersLogisticsHuman safety
Improving Efficiency in the Construction Industry with Encord
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CustomersConsumer
Accelerating the Prediction of Consumer Behaviour with Encord
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Reducing Model False Positive Rate from 6% to 1% with Vida ID

8 m

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CustomersHealthcare
Floy Reduced CT & MRI Annotation Time with AI-Assisted Labeling

7 m

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CustomersAgriculture
Saving the Honey Bees with Computer Vision

3 m

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CustomersHealthcare
Reducing MRI and CT Annotation Time by 70% for Rapid AI

5 m

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CustomersHealthcare
Customer Interview: Overcoming The Mental Torture of Manual Data Labelling

7 m

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CustomersInsurance
Building Multimodal AI Systems for Insurance with Tractable

3 m