LTU technologies Announces Release of LTU engine/ON demand – image recognition and search platform in the cloud

 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.

"Having been in this industry for 10 years now, it is extremely rewarding to see that organizations of all sizes and across a variety of industries are realizing the tremendous value of image recognition technologies,” said Alexandre Winter, CEO and co-founder of LTU technologies.  “LTU engine/ON demand offers tools do not require resources to deploy and maintain internally. This new platform will enable developers of mobile applications, websites, online communities and other consumer applications to easily and affordably integrate our technologies and make image recognition a standard feature.” added Winter.

LTU engine/ON demand is extremely flexible and integrates seamlessly with most software and hardware systems. The platform features cutting-edge image matching and similarity search performed at exceptional speed and accuracy levels. Images can be matched regardless of cropping, sizing, rotations, perspective, compilations and image quality, proven especially powerful for tracking image usage and integrating with mobile applications to link offline content with digital content.

In conjunction with the release of LTU engine/ON demand, LTU technologies is also launching the LTU developer network – a program that provides developers access to its platform API for integration into new or existing solutions and applications. Developers can join the program on www.ltutech.com.