Support for Real Time Facial Recognition, OCR and Digital Video Ingest Re-enforce Virage's Market Leading Position in Searchable Video Software; Video Search Tools 1.5 also Released LAS VEGAS, Nevada--April 19, 1999--Virage, Inc., the pioneer and recognized market leader in providing products and technologies that make video searchable, today announced and demonstrated VideoLogger™ 3.0, the latest version of the company's powerful video cataloging solution capable of automatically and simultaneously indexing video, digitizing multiple video formats and outputting that information into any video application or data store.
The Virage VideoLogger is already in use by organizations such as CNN, ABC News, BBC, CBS News, Fox Sports, General Motors, AltaVista, Harvard Business School and numerous U.S. government agencies. These companies and others rely on VideoLogger to increase productivity, reduce costs, access video-based information and generate new revenue streams. The new VideoLogger 3.0 is designed to optimize its use in 24x7 video production and video publishing environments, including: Support for real time face recognition and OCR. VideoLogger 3.0 supports plug-in video analysis engines for real time facial recognition and optical character recognition. These will be the first real time applications of these technologies to video and offer users two additional powerful methods for automatically extracting data from video. The facial recognition and OCR plug-ins will ship later this year.
Real time digital video ingest. VideoLogger 3.0's plug-in architecture allows digital video files (RealMedia, MPEG1, ASF, AVI and DV to name a few) to be indexed in real time during a Virage logging session without requiring additional decoding. VideoLogger 3.0 will ship with RealVideo™, QuickTime™ and DirectShow™ plug-ins.
Multiple simultaneous video encoding. VideoLogger 3.0 can encode video in multiple streaming video formats during a single cataloging session (such as several different bit-rate versions of RealVideo or RealVideo and MPEG1 and MPEG2). This enables the same tape to serve multiple functions, from instant news airing to promos to publishing on the Internet, in the format required by each application.
Production of high-resolution keyframe images. In addition to the low-resolution thumbnails that VideoLogger 3.0 while indexing the video, users can now also capture high-resolution JPEG images of each keyframe for use in print graphics and presentations.
Index extensibility. VideoLogger 3.0 saves the index data it extracts from the video in a fully extensible track architecture that allows users to enrich it with additional information such as GPS data, run-downs or run-logs.
Virage also introduced Video Search Tools 1.5 (VST), which enables organizations to easily publish searchable video on their intranet/extranet or the Internet. Using VST, users can search for video clips using a standard Web browser by entering keyword(s) to describe the topic they are interested in. A list of video clips that matches their inquiry is returned which they can then sort, browse or download for inclusion in other documents such as Microsoft PowerPoint.
"The Virage VideoLogger has become the standard for implementing searchable video in network television news," said Paul Lego, Chief Executive Officer of Virage. "It is redefining the way that broadcasters search for and use the wide variety of video-based information available to them. Ultimately, it saves them time and money, while improving the quality of their stories by providing quick and easy access to the video they want to see, when they want to see it." VideoLogger 3.0 is a Windows NT application and a powerful solution development framework. Using Virage's patented media analysis technologies, as well as third party technologies, the VideoLogger "watches, listens to and reads" video in real time, automatically extracting information such as keyframes, time codes, text and an audio profile. This information can also be supplemented by user-defined clips and annotations. Together, they produce a rich, frame-accurate index that provides immediate access to any part of the video, in the same way that a index points to specific pages in a book. VideoLogger 3.0 also works in conjunction with the Virage AudioLogger™ 1.0, the industry's only real time speech recognition, speaker identification and audio classification application designed for video cataloging. Additionally, VideoLogger 3.0 can also control the synchronous encoding/digitization of multiple low-bandwidth versions of the content. This digital video is lined up precisely with the index so users can go to a precise point in the video by selecting a key frame, word or marked clip.
Other new features available on VideoLogger 3.0 include: Support for capturing teletext data. With this feature, European users of the VideoLogger 3.0 can now extract teletext information in the same way that U.S. users already capture closed captions. This feature provides the most accurate method for generating an accurate transcript of the video.
Non-linear video cataloging. Users can now manually mark clips when shuttling backwards and forwards through tape, capturing clip in/out times from the tape deck. This allows for greater flexibility in manual logging situations where users need to shuttle the deck back and forth to locate clips.
Advanced clip marking. Several enhancements to the VideoLogger's clip marking function provide users with greater speed and flexibility when marking clips, thereby reducing manual logging time.
Deck emulation. VideoLogger 3,0 can emulate any industry-standard video recorder, such as a Sony Betacam SP VTR, using the V-LAN protocol. enabling it to to edit-controllers or a newsroom automation system. This feature enables the VideoLogger to integrate into a news environment without custom integration by making it "appear" as an industry standard tape deck to external systems such as edit controllers or newsroom automations systems.
Text track editing. Prior to saving the index, users of the VideoLogger can now edit any of the text captured during logging to improve data integrity and search accuracy. This feature applies to the text that was automatically extracted by the VideoLogger as well as manual annotations inputted by users.
About Virage, Inc.
Virage is the pioneer and recognized market leader in providing products and technologies that make video searchable. Virage's VideoLogger and AudioLogger software set the standard for real-time indexing and distribution of video across the Internet or corporate intranets/extranets and Virage has been named the market winner by industry analyst group Frost & Sullivan. Virage customers include ABC News, AltaVista, BBC, Carlton Communications, CBS News, CNN, CNN Interactive, Compaq, Energy Film Library, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Fox Sports, General Electric, General Motors, Harvard Business School, Heinle & Heinle, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, NASA, Network Espana, NBC News, PICS Retail Network, Reuters, Showdown Productions, Swiss Broadcasting Corp. and several classified U.S. government agencies. These companies rely on Virage video search products as the critical foundation technology for more effectively deploying and using video within their operations. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Virage was incorporated in 1994 to provide organizations with advanced methods for accessing and leveraging media assets. For more information, see the Virage Web site at http://www.virage.com or call (650) 573-3210.
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