Virage's New Videologger 4.0 Sets New Standards for Automatic, Real-Time Video Indexing
Award-Winning Software Now Provides Real-Time Face and On-Screen Text Recognition
NAB 2000 CONVENTION, Las Vegas, NV—April 11, 2000 —Virage Inc., a leading provider of interactive video search products and application services, today launched and demonstrated VideoLogger 4.0, the latest version of its award-winning video indexing platform. Enhancing its ability to extract information from video assets in real-time, VideoLogger now provides support for face and on-screen text recognition. VideoLogger 4.0 also introduces full support for MPEG2 encoding and ingest, as well as a new memory architecture for improved reliability in mission critical logging scenarios. Improving upon the powerful cataloging capabilities of its predecessor, VideoLogger 4.0 is designed to further address the needs of high-demand broadcast and video production environments.
"Virage continues to make technological advances with each new VideoLogger release," says Susie Opare, director of product marketing at Virage. "We are committed to evolving our product lines to meet the requirements of our video rich enterprise customers, and to pushing the technological boundaries of video indexing by integrating best of breed analysis technologies."
Virage Media Analysis Software for Face and On-Screen Text Recognition
Virage's new media analysis framework makes it possible to easily integrate state-of-the-art technologies. The first in a growing suite of media analysis tools, the newly available face and on-screen text recognition provide real-time, automatic extraction of information from the video content to enrich VideoLogger's index.
Virage's face recognition module allows users to program a library of known faces by adding images to the face library. Using FaceIt™ Technology from Visionics corporation, VideoLogger analyses each face in the video content to identify known faces and adds the name of the person to the video index. For example, users can instantly do searches on known personalities such as foreign dignitaries, political leaders, news anchors and celebrities.
Using ConTEXTrack® text extraction and recognition technology from SRI, Virage's On-Screen Text Recognition "reads" text in the video signal, such as supers, lower thirds, etc, and adds that information to the video index. By providing automatic, real-time extraction of this information, VideoLogger gives users immediate access to clips where a particular name or location appears, for example.
"We are constantly evaluating new technology as it becomes available," continues Opare. "We believe that Visionics and SRI are experts in their fields. Using third-party technology partners allows Virage to focus on our core competencies and at the same time deliver technological advancements that are the result of years of research and development."
VideoLogger 4.0 Enhancements
Having evolved from an application to an extensible platform, the robust architecture of the new VideoLogger offers more features and enhancements to meet the stingent deadlines of mission critical applications. These include:
Support for both ingest and encode of high-resolution MPEG2 for creating program content.
A new memory architecture with increased response to demands for 24/7 continuous, real time logging.
QuickTime encode and ingest.
New clip marking and editing features to facilitate improved efficiency and user experience
Expanded keyframing options, allowing users greater flexibility in fine tuning keyframing to match content
Improved VideoLogger data formats to address the demands of video distribution on the intranet or Internet.
Enhanced digital media ingest capabilties to allow extraction of ancilliary text from digital files
About Virage
Virage is a leading provider of products and application services that enable owners of video content to publish, manage, and distribute their video assets over the Internet or corporate intranets. Virage Interactive™ services provide content owners with the infrastructure for integrating Internet-compliant video into their web sites. Virage's VideoLogger™ and AudioLogger™ enable real-time indexing and distribution of video across the Internet or corporate intranets. Virage customers include ABC, AltaVista, Associated Press, BBC, Boeing, CBS, CNET, CNN, Compaq, C-SPAN, DaimlerChrysler, FBI, FOX Sports, General Electric, General Motors, Harvard Business School, iVillage.com, Lifetime Entertainment, Lockheed Martin, MGM, Morgan Stanley, NASA, NBCi/SNAP.com, New York Times, NYSE, NTT, ON24, PBS, RealNetworks, Reuters, Swiss Radio-TV, Telecinco, Yahoo! and Young & Rubicam. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Virage was incorporated in 1995 to provide organizations with advanced methods for searching, locating, and using video content. Contact Virage at http://www.virage.com/ or (650) 573-3210.
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