LTU Image-Seeker is a comprehensive search and retrieval software for visual assets
Image-Seeker boasts:
- Fully configurable browser-based interface
- Advanced visual and text search
- Highly scalable server-side software architecture
Why Image-Seeker ?
Image-SeekerTM provides a faster, more efficient way to search through large volumes of visual data.
Digital content has become a vital asset. The management and retrieval of visual content has emerged as a strategic necessity. Current text-based technologies have proven inadequate when dealing with visual content.
Image-Seeker delivers the most advanced visual content retrieval capabilities to corporations and government agencies.
This full software solution simplifies the search and matching processes at all levels of the organization. Image-Seeker has been designed for:
- Direct implementation for organizations with large volumes of strategic visual data.
- Integration with knowledge management and media asset management software.
The analysis engine is accessible from a fully configurable browser-based interface or from a flexible API for integration into an existing system.
Entreprise capabilities
Image-Seeker provides a faster, more efficient way to search through large volumes of visual data. Key features include:
Content Search
- Combined visual & text-based search
- Find exact and similar images
- Upload external images for search
- Advanced search: color/shape
- Client specific "DNA" customization
- Partial image search (cropping)
- Multiple image search reportings
- XML-based data model
- Customized XML output
"My Seeker" Area
- Manage personal settings
- View search history
- Save searches and images
Content Administration
- Flexible API for content input
- Easy enrollment of image directories
- Video enrollment capabilities
- User-friendly annotation interface
- Web interface fully configurable
- Export of database content
System Administration
- Advanced access rights management
- Secure image transmission
- Application monitoring
- Clustered architecture
Autoscan (add-on)
- Submit multiple files/folders
- Batch processing
- Server-side reports
- Detects and analyses hidden files (false extensions)
Architecture
- Server-side software scaling with large image databases.
- Parallel multiprocessor architecture and compliant with high availability clustered architecture.
- Flexible architecture allows for light software updates
- Data can be stored either on disk or on Oracle (for increased security and easier backup processes).
System requirements
Server: Image-Seeker is a server-side software optimized for high volumes and scalability. Cluster architecture is recommended for large volumes.
- Intel based processors (1 GHz Pentium or better).
- RAM: 512 MB per processor (minimum).
- Current OS: Linux RedHat 8.0 or higher, Red Hat ES, Sun Solaris 9, Fedora Core 1
Client-side platform: Browser interfaces (Internet Explorer 5+, Netscape 6+ and others)
Database: Oracle 8i or higher, PostGreSql 7.2 for low-scale implementations.
Integration
- Compatible with any data structure (static or dynamic, structured or unstructured).
- Standard API & SDK (Java, Perl, C/C++, PHP).
- Easy integration (HTTP/XML).
- Complementary with existing text-based and content management solutions.
Supported content
- Image formats: Over 20 image formats, including jpeg, gif, bmp, png, psd, etc.
- Content types: Color / black & white - Photographs, designs, logos, products
- Video (add-on module): Advanced key-frame technology to extract, store and search video content
- Biometrics (custom add-on): Face detection and similarity engine.
Internet surveillance
When Image-Seeker is used in conjunction with a Web "crawler" (or "spider"), it allows for surveillance of images on the Internet, in particular for applications such as:
- Intelligence and monitoring of published/exchanged images
- Counterfeit monitoring and unauthorized Sales
- Visual trademark and copyright protection
- Brand abuse tracking
- Market/Competitive intelligence
