Bandicoot Imaging Sciences

What Bandicoot Imaging Sciences does

Bandicoot Imaging Sciences is a Sydney-headquartered deep-tech company founded in September 2019 by four former imaging scientists from Canon's Australian research facility (CiSRA). It builds a cloud-based fabric digitisation platform that converts photographs of physical fabrics — captured with a standard DSLR or mirrorless camera together with a proprietary PRO Frame and 4-point colour calibration chart — into Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) texture maps up to 8K resolution. The core technology stack comprises the proprietary Shimmer Scan algorithm, BRDF-based reflectance modelling, seamless tiling and stitching processing, and the denim-specialised INDIKON pipeline, all protected by granted patents.

The company's offering is structured around three product lines: a full-service 3D Fabric Services motion (customers ship fabrics to Bandicoot or its scanning partners and receive PBR outputs), a self-service Shimmer Scan motion (DIY customers scan with their own cameras and a PRO Frame, then process in the cloud), and post-processing tools (Seamless Tile & Stitch and the Cloud PBR Material Library). Outputs are compatible with the dominant 3D garment-design tools (CLO3D, Browzwear, Style3D, Optitex) and major real-time engines (Unreal Engine, Unity, Blender, Adobe Substance).

Revenue is generated through four streams: per-fabric unit pricing for digitisation services ($30–$40+ USD per fabric), usage-based credit SaaS pricing ($0.30/credit, 30 free credits on signup, no fixed monthly fees), one-time hardware package sales of PRO Frames ($99/$149 entry tiers, custom enterprise pricing), and channel revenue via the Swatchbook service-centre arrangement. Customer segments span fashion/apparel brands, textile mills (notably denim), furniture/interior, and automotive textiles, with named enterprise customers including Stella Blu Textile, Jeanologia, Soorty, and The Fabricant. The company maintains offices in Sydney, Copenhagen, and Hong Kong, a global scanning partner network, and go-to-market across PLG, direct enterprise sales, and channel partners.

Name

Bandicoot Imaging Sciences

Legal name

Bandicoot Imaging Sciences Pty. Ltd.

Website

https://bandicootimaging.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bandicoot Imaging Sciences is a Sydney-based deep-tech company that uses proprietary computer-vision algorithms to convert standard camera captures of fabrics into PBR texture maps for 3D design, serving fashion brands, textile mills, and furniture/automotive textile customers globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

3D Fabric Digitization Software

SIC

Optical Instruments & Lenses (3827), Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro primary industry

Metrology & Inspection Systems (CMM, Laser Trackers, Optical Comparators) (IMAAAHAC)

Keywords

• Fabric digitization
• PBR texture generation
• 3D fashion design
• Textile scanning
• Digital material library

Headquarters

HQ city

Sydney

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Digitisation Services: Full-service fabric digitisation where customers ship fabrics to scanning centres. Pricing based on fabric type, resolution, and pattern repeat size. Includes visual scanning, physics measurement, and CGI rendering services.
2. Self-Service Software (SaaS Credits): Cloud-based processing platform where customers purchase credits to unlock digitised materials. Usage-based credit system with 30 free credits on signup. No fixed monthly costs.
3. Hardware Packages (PRO Frames): One-time purchase of PRO Frame scanning equipment with included scan credits. Essential Package at $99, Professional Package at $149, Enterprise Package at custom pricing.
4. Swatchbook Service Partnership: As official swatchbook service centre, provides digitisation services to Swatchbook ecosystem customers in Asia/Pacific region

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Bandicoot Imaging Sciences provides a cloud-based fabric digitization platform that converts physical fabrics into high-resolution PBR (Physically-Based Rendering) texture maps for 3D design and visualization. The offering includes full-service 3D Fabric Services where customers ship fabrics for processing, the Shimmer Scan self-service solution using customer-owned cameras with a proprietary PRO Frame and scanning recipe, and Seamless Tile & Stitch software for automated texture post-processing. Outputs integrate with major 3D tools (CLO3D, Browzwear, Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity) for fashion design, virtual sampling, CGI rendering, and e-commerce visualization.

Product overview

Bandicoot Imaging Sciences offers a fabric digitization platform comprising three core products and supporting tools. The primary offering is 3D Fabric Services, a full-service digitization solution where fabrics are scanned by Bandicoot or scanning partners. Shimmer Scan is a self-service option for technical photographers using their own camera equipment with Bandicoot's proprietary PRO Frame and scanning recipe. Seamless Tile & Stitch provides software tools for automated post-processing of PBR textures. These services are supported by a Cloud PBR Material Library for asset management and the Shimmer View feature for interactive web embedding. INDIKON is a specialized sub-brand for denim-specific digitization. The platform generates Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) texture maps compatible with all major 3D design tools including CLO3D, Browzwear, Blender, and game engines like Unreal Engine and Unity.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• INDIKON: Cloud-based fabric digitisation technology exclusively designed for denim fabrics, enabling mills to convert physical denim into 3D-ready materials using proprietary algorithms.
• Shimmer Scan
• Shimmer View

Products and services

• 3D Fabric Services Full-service fabric digitisation where customers ship physical fabrics to Bandicoot or its global scanning partners for processing into PBR texture files. Includes colour calibration, seamless tiling, and tuning for specific 3D workflows. Designed for fashion brands, textile mills, and designers needing ready-to-use digital fabric assets.
• Shimmer Scan Self-service fabric scanning solution for technical photographers using their own DSLR/mirrorless cameras with Bandicoot's proprietary PRO Frame, chart, and scanning recipe. Users upload captures to Bandicoot's cloud for PBR texture generation. Targets studios and SMBs wanting in-house fabric digitisation.
• Seamless Tile & Stitch Software tools that automate tiling and stitching of PBR texture maps, transforming existing PBR texture captures into perfectly aligned seamless tiles for 3D workflows. Includes stitching for merging overlapping texture captures. For users with existing PBR scanners who want to streamline post-processing.
• Cloud PBR Material Library Cloud-based library for storing, managing, and sharing PBR texture maps. Provides centralised access to digital materials, folder structures and tagging for organisation, secure cloud storage, and sharing links. Supports download in PNG, U3M, and GLTF formats with alpha maps. Designed for teams managing large digital fabric collections.

Quantifiable outcome

• Nearly 30% of online clothes purchases are returned, with a major cause being that the product looks different from images online
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration15 records

AI capability4 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SwatchbookcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 4 May 2021Bandicoot joined Swatchbook ecosystem as an official 'swatchbook service center', the fifth service center to join. Provides low-cost digitisation services to Swatchbook customers, particularly in Asia/Pacific region. Partnership enables digital fabric integration with Swatchbook's material management platform.
• Australian Fashion CouncilminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 December 2020Featured by Australian Fashion Council as a fashion tech and innovation company developing advanced solutions to help fashion businesses reduce waste and enhance customer experience.
• UNSW 10x AcceleratorminorOthers · 28 July 2020Selected for UNSW's 2020 10x Accelerator programme, receiving AUD 20,000 investment from a pool of 75 applicants. Programme aimed at startups founded by UNSW students, staff or alumni.
• CLO3DcoreTechnology or IntegrationCertified Partner. Bandicoot's textures work seamlessly with CLO3D's 3D garment design software. CLO3D is changing the world with virtual garments, enabling designers to create and alter true-to-life 3D garments before production.
• BrowzwearcoreTechnology or IntegrationService Partner. Bandicoot's textures are compatible with Browzwear Vstitcher for true-to-life digital samples that remove productivity barriers, speed up time to market, and enhance sustainability.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Browzwear: Provider of 3D garment design software (Vstitcher) for fashion and apparel. Directly comparable because Bandicoot is a certified service partner and its PBR textures integrate into Vstitcher, competing and cooperating on the same end-customer fabric digitisation workflows.
• Material Exchange: Digital materials marketplace for footwear and apparel, providing sourcing and traceability. Overlaps with Bandicoot on the digitisation and distribution of physical fabric samples, and is a listed integration partner.
• Optitex: Provider of 3D fashion design and product lifecycle solutions. Bandicoot textures are compatible with Optitex, and the two address overlapping fashion brand customers seeking end-to-end digital sampling workflows.
• Revobit: Digital material supply platform for accurate fabric texture representation. Bandicoot's Versekit is a listed integration partner, and Revobit competes in the same digital material supply category for fashion/furnishing buyers.
• DMIx: Digital colour management and material workflow platform for fashion and apparel. Listed Bandicoot integration partner; both target mills and brands needing accurate digital material data.
• Style3D: Real-time 3D fashion simulation platform (including Linctex). Bandicoot textures are compatible with Style3D, and the two compete for share of mind on the digital fabric creation step in the apparel design pipeline.
• Swatchbook: Cloud-based material management platform for digital fabrics. Bandicoot is an official Swatchbook service centre, but Swatchbook also aggregates fabric assets from mills, making it both a distribution channel and a partial substitute for digitisation services.
• CLO3D: Leading 3D garment simulation platform serving fashion brands and manufacturers. CLO3D is a Bandicoot integration partner, but both compete for budget on the fabric digitisation step in the 3D apparel workflow.

Emerging players

• Jeanologia: Spanish technology company focused on sustainable denim finishing and laser/ozone garment processing. Listed as a Bandicoot partner for laundry data and fabric physics in digital denim simulation, addressing the same denim mill customers with adjacent digital workflow tooling.

Broad incumbents

• Adobe Substance: Adobe's 3D materials and texturing ecosystem (Substance Painter/Designer). Comparable because both produce PBR-ready digital materials consumed in 3D pipelines; Adobe's scale and bundled pricing make it a broad incumbent competitor for texture capture and authoring.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Instagraminstagram.com/bandicootimaging

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors5 records

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M&A

Investments

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