Recent press releases

LTU technologies (www.ltutech.com) a pioneer of image recognition and search technologies, today announced enhancements to its recently launched LTU engine/ON demand platform. The next generation platform makes it easier than ever for developers to incorporate image recognition capabilities into applications with the flexibility and affordability of a hosted service.

In addition to the latest product release, LTU technologies also expanded its developer program providing open access to the platform API. The LTU developer network is designed to enable developers to evaluate and integrate image matching and similarity search functionality easily and risk-free. For more information or to join the program, please visit http://www.ltutech.com/developers.

LTU engine/ON demand

The platform upgrade provides a more intuitive administrative console that features additional enhanced status and history tools. A newly added service mode provides developers with a choice between asynchronous and synchronous mode, simplifying the development testing process and enabling applications that require real-time production updates.

 LTU technologies (www.ltutech.com), pioneer of image recognition and search technologies, whose licensed software platform, LTU engine®, has been adopted by commercial and government organizations worldwide since 2000, today launched LTU engine/ON demand. This hosted version of LTU engine offers LTU technologies’ advanced image recognition and search capabilities at an adaptable price that is directly linked to the actual usage of the platform.

Offered as an affordable pay-per-capacity model, LTU engine/ON demand requires little upfront financial investment, no additional hardware and as a hosted service there are no recurring maintenance or upgrade fees.

AccessData Corporation, the fastest growing provider of end-to-end digital investigations solutions and LTU technologies, a leading provider of image recognition and search technologies have entered into a joint partnership aimed at enhancing AccessData’s image search and identification capabilities. Integrating AccessData’s Forensic Toolkit® (FTK®) with image recognition from LTU technologies will be of particular value to law enforcement agencies inundated with image-related investigations such as child pornography cases.

Recognized as the industry-standard software provider of computer forensic investigation solutions, AccessData will, through this long-term alliance, continuously add LTU technologies’ unique image recognition and artificial vision algorithms to their existing product portfolio. These cutting-edge algorithms, used by law enforcement agencies throughout the world since 2000, will improve investigators’ response time and effectiveness, while advancing automated analysis tools to handle the blind spots that visual content still represents for most computer forensics tools.

Paris & New York  –  June 18, 2009  –  Profil Technology, a leading European developer and publisher of security and content filtering software, has released its new version of parental control software, Parental Filter 2.  The software, which uses LTU technologies’ image recognition functionality to enhance its filtering capabilities, is now available in French and in English. 

Parents everywhere are faced with the challenge of ensuring the appropriate use of the Internet in their homes, while still giving their children the freedom to explore the Web. Government initiatives in this area have proven difficult to deploy or enforce, such as in the USA, where the Supreme Court rejected the Child Online Protection Act.  As a result, parents are thus taking the initiatives themselves to protect their families from Internet risks of all types, such as pornography, online predators, and fraudulent websites.

Paris and New York – 1 June 2009 - LTU technologies, PixPalace and TNS media intelligence partner to offer PixTrakk, the service for tracking photo publication in the printed press and on the web.  The service thus contributes to the respect of copyright and intellectual property in the photo industry.

In the current context of the growing number of distribution media, photographers and photo agencies are confronted more than ever with the problem of tracking the utilization of their content.  For agencies, at stake is identifying systematically the photos which have been downloaded and then used (whether declared or not), allowing agencies to save time in invoicing and in payment of remuneration to photographers.

Paris, France and Washington, DC – October 22, 2008 – LTU technologies, the global leader in multimedia content control solutions, announced today a new version of its LTU engine, a comprehensive platform that packages LTU’s suite of breakthrough image and video content control and search tools into one platform, using one single application programming interface (API).

Paris, France and Washington D.C. - 3 October 2008 - LTU technologies, the global leader in multimedia content control solutions, announced today it successfully demonstrated a consumer application for photo management running on Intel's next-generation processor family called Intel Core i7, expected to be launched in the Fall of this year.

In front of an audience at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco last week, LTU exemplified how powerful image search and image management tools, traditionally used by LTU's enterprise and government clients, can be used at the consumer level. The solution enables people with hundreds or even thousands of images to easily search, organize and manage their photos unlike any other products available on the market today.

Paris, France and Washington D.C. - May 19, 2008 - LTU technologies, the global leader in multimedia content control solutions, announced today its approved participation in the Quaero project. The Quaero project is a publicly funded technology initiative that aims to foster collaboration between best of breed technology companies and academic research laboratories in order to promote the development of next generation multimedia search engines and tools. The Quaero initiative will fund the development of tools to search, categorize and manage multimedia content, such as text, images and video, in different languages.

LTU began its partnership with Quaero in 2006, and will continue its participation in the exciting collaborations under the Quaero umbrella for the next three years.

Washington DC and Paris, France - May 12, 2008 - LTU technologies, a global provider of multimedia content control solutions, announced today that eMAGE, an international trademarks research service, has reached its initial deployment phase. Intellectual property professionals will begin testing and evaluating the system which has been developed over the last two years. The development and deployment of the database was made possible by the eMARKS project, a coalition of eight international partners, each contributing their own particular technical and business capabilities necessary for the successful accomplishment of the project's objectives, sponsored by the European Union.

Washington, DC - April 28, 2008  - LTU technologies, a global provider of multimedia content control solutions, announced today the release of LTU-Finder v. 3.0, a breakthrough tool for image and video recognition in the field of computer forensics.