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Tuesday, 22nd May 2007

Briefs: Image Recognition Software Used to Find Stolen/Looted Art and Valuables; Exalead Launches Video Search Beta; Ask.com CEO Interviewed

+ Exalead Launches Video Search Beta
Material from YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Kewego, and IFILM web sites. Limit by:
+ Relevance,
+ Most recent,
+ Most rated,
+ Most viewed, or
+ Length
Each result includes a static image from the video. Here's an example of a search results page. Also look for "related" keywords at the bottom of the right side of the page.

+ LTU Image-Seeker Technology Used to Help Find Stolen and Looted Property

Identifying works of art looted during the Nazi period is one of the focuses of a new technology platform powered by LTU technologies for MyThings (www.mythings.com), the international registry of valuables. LTU has announced that the recent expanded deployment includes an upgraded visual search facility for MyThings, which has been an LTU customer since 2005.

"MyThings (formerly called Swift-Find) incorporates LTU technology in its Trace service (www.trace.com) which includes the world's largest cross-category international database of stolen valuables," said Ken Bouche, Vice President of Trace.

"MyThings also developed Trace Looted Art (www.tracelootedart.com), which includes the largest international online database of Nazi era looted art and is constantly being checked against objects for sale by dealers and auction houses," Bouche said.

See Also: We've Written About LTU's Technology for Many Years on ResourceShelf. Here are links to a few of the posts.
+ Image-Seeker Demo (Visual Similarity and Metadata) Demo Using Imagery from Corbis

++ Report: Organising personal pictures with content analysis technology
From the 2004 Search Engine Meeting. PDF file.

++ Finding the Right Image in the Corbis Collection
From the 2003 SE Meeting. PDF file.

++ More Visual Similarity Search Tools

++ Exalead is also using LTU Technology Incorporated into their Image Search (See Final Item in this Post)

+ Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone Interviewed (via Forbes)
Note: Gary is Director of Online Resources at Ask.com.


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