On 11 November 2025, KLASS commemorated a major milestone—our 10th anniversary. Over the past decade, KLASS has evolved from a fledgling team into a trusted custom solutioning and R&D partner for Singapore’s public safety sector. What started as an aspiration to apply emerging technologies to real operational challenges has grown into a sustained commitment to building practical, tailored innovations for our clients.
This anniversary celebration was not only an opportunity to reflect on the breakthroughs, milestones and partnerships that shaped our first ten years, but also a moment to bring together the people behind KLASS—our KLASSmates, partners and clients who contributed to every step of our growth— in our new research and experimentation space. The event reaffirmed our dedication to creating forward-looking technologies with purpose, guided by the belief that meaningful impact emerges from close collaboration, curiosity and an unwavering focus on operational needs.
As we celebrate this chapter, we also look ahead with renewed ambition to continue shaping solutions that strengthen public safety and empower operators for the next decade and beyond.
Guests had the opportunity to explore a curated showcase of solutions, prototypes and research that illustrate our focus on leveraging cutting-edge technologies to solve the challenges faced in the local public safety sector. Visitors were able to interact with some of our AI-enabled solutions. This included DocMiner, a tool that enhances degraded, partially damaged documents to support investigations and archival efforts through context-aware text prediction and structurally aware document parsing. We also introduced Dr Kuery, our enterprise chatbot solution featuring useful functions such as workspace collaboration and retrieving relevant answers via document domain adaptation.
Our video analytics showcase featured KnightReader, our work into enabling reliable local carplate detection in challenging lighting conditions—such as glare, glow or under/over exposed lighting—ensuring accuracy in real-time on-device deployment. In parallel, we presented our internal innovation project on AI-enabled Multi-Angle Polarising Filter, where we are able to leverage our proprietary algorithm to compare and dynamically select the best angle from multi-angle polarising filters, supporting a variety of lens options.
Our work in Robotics and AIot was also featured, with one showcase featuring our Cyborg Insect, our co-developed bio-inspired platform equipped with our in-house developed AIoT backpack for localisation and AI-empowered human detection in confined and complex environments such as collapsed structures and disaster zones. Our KLASS Robotics team also presented our work across sensor fusion and autonomous navigation. Another segment of the showcase highlighted KLASS’ mobile rapid prototyping capabilities, enabling state-of-the-art (SOTA) AI models to be rapidly tested and validated in real-world operational environments using mobile devices. This capability leverages model quantisation and optimisation techniques to deploy AI models for real-time, on-device inference on mobile phones, with cross-accelerator compatibility across CPUs, GPUs and NPUs. By supporting multiple mobile hardware architectures, KLASS enables fast iteration cycles and in-field testing without reliance on specialised edge devices.
Our Speech team debuted Kognigate, our robust, general-purpose AI-Powered Interview Assistant concept. Kognigate is designed to support real-time interview capture through live transcription, augmented with contextual analysis to suggest relevant follow-up questions and generate AI-powered summaries of interview sessions, improving both efficiency and information fidelity.
The showcase also featured highlights from KLASS’ researchers, including publications accepted at leading global conferences such as ACM Multimedia 2025. These outputs reflect KLASS’ continued commitment to advancing our research capabilities in areas like deepfake detection, data systems and curation and video analytics. The showcase also featured past student-mentored capstone projects developed in collaboration with students from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). These projects reflect KLASS’ commitment to talent development and industry–academia collaboration, providing students with exposure to real-world public safety challenges while contributing fresh perspectives to address local public safety challenges.
Our KLASS Innovation Team also presented our innovation pathway of Scout, Discover, Build and Empower, helping to translating emerging technologies into practical solutions. The showcase also featured our efforts in global tech scouting, rapid engineering, and close collaboration with customers.
Together, these showcased technologies represent not only the breadth of KLASS’ expertise but also our continued commitment to developing future-ready, impact-focused innovations for public safety and critical operations.
