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LOS ALTOS, Calif., Jun 4, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
piXlogic,
provider of Visual Search Engine (VSE) software, today announced
In-Q-Tel, a private venture group funded by the Central Intelligence
Agency, has invested in and become a customer of the company. After
rigorous testing, In-Q-Tel determined piXlogic's software can quickly
and automatically index and search object information in digital
images and video.
piXlogic provides the foundation for managing the contents of
pictures/videos at a logical level, and for using pictures to query
and interact with databases and software systems. In the short run,
the piXlogic technology provides the means to bring digital
images/video on par with electronic text documents from a content
management perspective. In the long run, it offers the potential to
revolutionize the way people use digital images to interact with
computing systems.
"piXlogic's advanced image search technology provides a great
combination of speed, accuracy, and compactness," said Gilman Louie,
CEO of In-Q-Tel. "In a multimedia rich age, this technology can
significantly help both commercial enterprises and government
organizations handle vast amounts of images and video."
piXlogic's software is targeted at markets that are forced to deal
with the vast amounts of digital imagery being created daily. It is
vital to the broadcast, advertising, entertainment and media
industries as they try to maximize revenue from reuse of their
properties. Further, the piXlogic capabilities are becoming
increasingly important to mobile services companies as sales explode
for camera-enabled phones and PDAs. The security industry also has a
keen interest in visual search technology to help focus their limited
resources on images and video that may contain valuable information.
"We believe the piXlogic technology can fundamentally change the
way people interact with images and databases containing digital
images and video," said Joe Santucci, CEO of piXlogic. "Having
In-Q-Tel select our software is a great validation of our efforts to
create the first practical production-quality Visual Search Engine
technology. We are excited to be working with experts who will push
the envelope on requirements for visual search. This will benefit our
customers in all markets."
"Today massive amounts of digital imagery are being created and
stored," said Dr. Shelia Guberman, Senior Scientist of piXlogic and
inventor of the handwriting recognition technology used today by
Microsoft in Windows CE. "Until now, a user had two options for
finding a particular image -- manually looking through hundreds to
millions of images looking for ones that match his requirements, or
tagging each image with external attributes (keywords or metadata)
describing the contents of the image to be searched later using a text
search engine. The latter requires not only manually reviewing all
images and entering those descriptions, but also ensuring that the
descriptions be comprehensive enough to cover all possible words which
could be the subject of future search queries."
About piXsearch(TM) SDK
piXlogic's piXsearch(TM) SDK (software developer kit) can easily
be integrated into existing applications through its well-defined,
comprehensive API and industry standard interfaces. Not only does it
extract accurate logical visual object information from digital images
and videos, but it stores this metadata in a very compact format. The
metadata can be searched rapidly using any arbitrary image, or portion
of an image to formulate an object-based visual search query. By being
able to detect and match objects within images automatically, the
software can drastically reduce the amount of manpower otherwise
required to perform these types of tasks.
About piXlogic
PiXlogic provides Visual Search Engine (VSE) software that quickly
and automatically indexes and searches for object information in
digital images and video. piXlogic's software is targeted at markets
forced to deal with the vast amounts of digital imagery being created
daily, including media asset management, security, and mobile devices.
piXlogic is a privately held software technology company headquartered
in Los Altos, CA. For more information go to www.pixlogic.com.
About In-Q-Tel
In-Q-Tel is a private, independent, enterprise funded by the CIA.
Launched in 1999, In-Q-Tel's mission is to identify and invest in
companies developing cutting-edge information technologies that serve
United States national security interests. Working from an evolving
strategic blueprint that defines the CIA's critical information
technology needs, In-Q-Tel engages with entrepreneurs, established
companies, researchers and venture capitalists to deliver technologies
that pay out in superior intelligence capabilities for the CIA and the
larger Intelligence Community. Learn more at www.in-q-tel.org.
SOURCE: piXlogic
piXlogic
Bob McKee, 408/655-8856
bmckee@pixlogic.com
or
Montara Mountain Marketing
Nico Sell, 650/465-0943
nico@montaramountain.com
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