Topic - Online Video & recognition technologies
Digitalsmiths Lets You Search Inside Video
Digitalsmiths claims to have a so-called ’skin detection algorithm’ that will allow users of the video search engine to search for dialogue, nude scenes and more… How peculiar.
Image and Speech Recognition in Video SEO: The Digitalsmith interview
ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the video publishing platform and indexing solutions provider Digitalsmiths, Ben Weinberger, on how their combination of image interpretation and speech recognition tools can enhance search results and SEO campaigns for businesses of all sizes.
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blinkx Launches Automated Video Metadata Enrichment Service for Publishers
blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced the availability of an Enhanced Metadata Enrichment solution for publishers, as part of the blinkx Advanced Media Platform. Based on technology that was perfected over 12 years at Cambridge University and is protected by 111 patents, the blinkx Advanced Media Platform enables media publishers and aggregators to manage and monetize video content to its greatest potential.
New Video Search Speech Recognition Demonstration from Microsoft
Kit Thambiratnam of Microsoft Research in Asia demonstrates a new search technique being developed for internet video to the living room – all driven by speech recognition.
Nexidia Speech Recognition Technology to Assist with Enhanced Video Search
Nexidia, the market-leading provider of highly scalable and accurate rich media search and speech analytics software, announced today they have been chosen by Thought Equity Motion, the world leader in providing access to high quality film, video and music content, to augment Thought Equity’s online content tagging capabilities, enabling an enhanced, more effective video search experience to Thought Equity Motion clients.
The First Contextual Ad Platform to Leverage Image & Video Recognition Technologies Launched Today
Eyealike, a visual-based search innovator, today announced Eyealike VisualAd, the world’s first image and video-based contextual advertising platform for social networks and rich media websites. With a unique ability to recognize facial features, skin color, hair, gender and age, as well as objects like logos or product images, Eyealike VisualAd can serve highly targeted ads based on the context of online images and videos. The proprietary approach is similar to Google’s AdWords model, but based solely on an automated method that quickly indexes, filters, and classifies images and videos rather than relying on keywords to place targeted ads alongside rich media.
GAudio Launches – Google’s Sexy Audio Indexing for Video Search
Back in July, Google announced the availability of a video search tool that would search within a subset of Youtube political videos that had been analyzed using speech-to-text recognition technology. Speech-to-text recognition can be a powerful way to index and better understand the actual video content, especially with videos considered to be infotainment.
YouTube Speech-to-Text Recognition Functionality
YouTube, you know that Google-owned online video service, has decided that rich metadata may be the way to go. They believe that it could make a big splash and change the way that videos are indexed.
Adobe Works to Make Video Search Indexing Easier
We all know how much work it is to transcribe audio or video to text. Adobe knows as well and is doing something about it. Adobe is set to release a new version of Flash that will feature speech-to-text technology for automatic transcription and it will be incorporated into their video creation applications like Premiere as well.
Google Adds Speech Recognition To Video Search
At the Official Google Blog, Google announced the availability of a new speech recognition tool for video search. This tool is limited in that it only searches through a set of political videos however it shows a good preview of things to come. The Google Election Video Search Gadget was released in the form of a gadget that you can embed on your iGoogle homepage. I have embedded the gadget below so that you can see this functionality for yourself. Here is the new tool:
New Multimedia Search Engine – Snipp.tv
NSC (Natural Speech Communication Ltd.), specializing in speech recognition technology, today announced the launch of Snipp.TV, a multimedia search engine designed for search within online multimedia files (www.snipp.tv ).
Google’s VisualRank Image Recognition Algorithm
So, how soon before Google and the other main search engines begin to use recognition technologies as primary means in their ranking algorithms for video search?
