Editions Profil and LTU technologies announce technology partnership
Even more powerful solutions for online content control, designed for enterprises as well as for families.
Paris - 7 December 2007 - Editions Profil, a leading European developer and publisher of security and content filtering software, has chosen the image and video analysis technologies developed by LTU technologies to enrich and expand its content filtering tools and to improve even more the accuracy of results.
Ensuring appropriate use of the Internet - within enterprises, government agencies, schools and homes - is a challenge for business and agency managers and for parents, who all face a real strategic and ethical choice. For enterprises, in order to be in compliance with liability and responsibility regulations, and for parents, the urgent need to protect children from Internet risks of all types.
The evolution of speed of access and the enrichment of Internet content via the increasingly frequent use of video now impose new solutions for mastering the use of networks and the Internet.
Ensuring appropriate use depends upon the analysis of numerous types of information: Internet site addresses, semantic content, emails, instant messaging, multiple languages, site locations, confidential personal data, search engine results, communication protocols, file extensions, authorized access times, images and henceforth, videos.
"Used by numerous organizations and enterprises throughout the world, the image filtering technologies of LTU have especially built their reputation for reliability by being adopted by law enforcement organizations (the French Gendarmerie Nationale, USA Homeland Security, ...) in the war against child abuse and investigations of child abuse images. These technologies will now bring a level of protection which is complementary to the filtering tools developed by Editions Profil to ensure appropriate use of the Internet by enterprises and individuals," said Franck Chartier, Director of Marketing, Editions Profil.
"LTU technologies is decisively focused on the control of visual content, whether online or offline," adds Alexandre Winter, CEO of LTU technologies. "For undesirable content such as pornography, sensitive or illegal content, or also content involving copyright infringement, LTU furnishes tools which permit identification of this content and its proper treatment, according to the business rules and standards of our users.
"Our partnership with Editions Profil represents the opportunity to be associated with one of the most effective and reliable solutions in the market. The software solution offered is unique in its category, and it surely defines tomorrow's standards for Internet access control, be it for individuals, for schools or for enterprises."
"Our partnership with Editions Profil represents the opportunity to be associated with one of the most effective and reliable solutions in the market. The software solution offered is unique in its category, and it surely defines tomorrow's standards for Internet access control, be it for individuals, for schools or for enterprises."
About Editions Profil - Editions Profil, a European, Paris-based private corporation founded in 1989, develops, publishes and distributes software products for multiple activity sectors, both for professionals and for consumers. Editions Profil has built a large catalog of solutions in numerous domains, including the office and productivity sectors. In recent years Editions Profil has especially focused on the design and distribution of tools for computer security and general data protection. Edition Profil notably publishes the security solutions BitDefender and Parental Filter, as well as Farstone solutions, and distributes the Kroll-Ontrack data recovery and MS Exchange server management solutions.
About LTU technologies - Founded in 1999, LTU technologies provides software solutions dedicated to the analysis of visual content. LTU has developed sophisticated image recognition techniques permitting the automation of detection, search, and classification of images and videos. Patented, this technology resulted from advanced academic research (INRIA, Oxford, MIT). LTU technologies addresses several vertical markets: military intelligence, police investigations, intellectual property, search and content filtering for enterprises and for user-generated content sites, such as online photo and video sharing sites. LTU technologies has offices in Paris and Washington, DC
Press contact: - press@ltutech.com
