Virage Creates World's First Video Search Engine for the World Wide Web
Clinton testimony serves as first example of searchable video that people anywhere in the world can view via the Internet SAN MATEO, Calif.--Sept. 22, 1998--Virage, Inc. today launched the world's first video search engine for the World Wide Web. The new technology is being used to allow Internet users worldwide to search for and view any section of President Clinton's four hour long grand jury testimony, without having to watch the video from beginning to end. Viewers can go to http://video.altavista.com, enter any keyword or phrase from the testimony, and instantly be taken to the segment(s) resulting from their query. From there, they can read the transcript of the President's testimony or choose to play the streaming video that accompanies that segment.
A worldwide audience eagerly awaited yesterday morning's release of President Clinton's testimony. But unless they had four hours to watch it, most people were only able to catch the out-takes presented to them by the traditional broadcast networks. And while many Internet sites are offering the President's video testimony on demand, there is no easy way to find a particular part of the interrogation. Virage's Video Cataloging technology extends the capabilities of the Internet by allowing users to find and play back portions of the video that are particularly interesting to them. Indexing video dramatically reduces the time required to view video. It also eases the burden on the network and host server because users stream out only the segments they want to see.
"Today Virage revolutionized the way people experience and use streaming video on the Internet by creating the world's first video search engine for the Web," said Paul Lego, chief executive officer of Virage. "The broadcast of the President's video testimony poignantly demonstrated the potential power of streaming video on the Internet, as well as its frustrating limits. The good news is that the Internet has matured to the point where Internet video can be simulcast alongside TV and cable broadcasts. The bad news is that simply broadcasting video over the Web does not take full advantage of the inherent interactivity of the Internet. Virage's Video Cataloger redefines how video is experienced on the Web, automatically transforming the President's testimony into a powerful media format that can be searched and navigated via the Web." The Virage Video Cataloger uses advanced media analysis algorithms to automatically watch, listen to and read either analog or digital video in order to intelligently extract metadata-keyframes, time codes, textual information and an audio profile-from the video in real time. This information becomes a rich, frame-accurate index that provides immediate, non-linear access to any segment of the video-in much the same way that a card catalog unlocks the wealth of knowledge in a large library. Extracted metadata can be published in a wide variety of file formats, including HTML, ALE and XML. AltaVista's search engine can then crawl the HTML pages generated by the Video Cataloger in exactly the same way it would any other page found on the Web.
In parallel to the indexing process, the Video Cataloger also controls the encoding of a streamable version of the original content. Synchronized encoding and indexing allows users to intelligently navigate through the video by using the index to go directly to the exact point of interest, rather than streaming it from start to finish. This approach provides video previewing that is faster than real-time, while conserving valuable network bandwidth.
About Virage, Inc.
Virage is the pioneer and recognized market leader in creating and delivering media cataloging and media analysis applications. The Virage Video Cataloger sets the standard for real-time indexing and distribution of video across the enterprise and has been named the market winner by industry analyst group Frost & Sullivan. The company's Visual Information Retrieval (VIR) Engine is the most widely adopted image recognition technology available today. Virage customers in the broadcast, government, post production, Web publishing, distance learning and Fortune 1000 markets rely on these products as the critical foundation technology for more effectively deploying media within their operations. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Virage was founded in 1993 to provide organizations with advanced methods for accessing and leveraging media assets. For more information, see the Virage Web site at www.virage.com or call (650) 573-3210.
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