Author Archives: Rémi

  • Exalead at the forefront of search and innovation in Europe

    July 26th, 2010 by Rémi News 0

    As a European research program funded by the European Commission, our research engineers use their expertise to collaborate with industry and academic partners and create information access systems known for their excellent performance.

    Information access systems face several technical and scientific challenges, but the European Commission is focusing special attention on the search and retrieval of multimedia information. They launched a new “Networked Media” project to promote the development of new collaborative tools that can be used to find and share multimedia data both on the Web and on social networks. Exalead is partnering with industry leaders and European academics to develop two new projects under the Networked Media umbrella: I-SEARCH and GLOCAL.

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    The GLOCAL project is developing a system that can search photos, videos and sound recordings that correspond with particular events. This project is inspired by the idea of recreating human behavior by mimicking the way we mentally file away concepts and objects from our day-to-day lives. GLOCAL characterizes media files as the  events they represent, such as the World Cup, a wedding, election politics or natural disasters.

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    For more information about this project, please visit the GLOCAL project website at http://www.glocal-project.eu/. Exalead CloudView plays an integral role the GLOCAL system architecture.

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    The I-SEARCH project is dedicated to developing a platform to manage 2D and 3D multimedia documents. A data model will be developed that can capture the details and specifications of a 2D or 3D image or video. Then, users can more efficiently search multimedia collections using a query system instead of simple key words. For example, users can draw a chair with their mouse or upload a photo of a chair, and the system will recognize the image as a chair and then bring up similar sketches in a furniture supplier catalogue.

    For more information about this project, please visit the I-SEARCH project website at http://www.isearch-project.eu/isearch/. This platform is integrated with the Exalead CloudView technology.

  • Chromatik Adds Color to Exalead’s Image Search

    October 27th, 2009 by Rémi New products & features 3

    Many of you have already tested Chromatik, the color-based image search demo from our research laboratory, Exalabs. In line with our commitment to incorporate the best of Exalabs technology into our public search engine, we have now integrated Chromatik functionality into the Exalead Image Search. See the new color palette options on menu of the Image Search results page:

    The tool features a palette of 8 colors. Simply click on a color to filter results according to your color of choice:

    You can refine your selections even further by selecting additional colors from the palette, helping you locate images with specific combinations of colors:

    There’s no limit to the colors you can mix and match!

    The last option on the color palette menu lets you narrow your results to black and white images only, a feature available on the prior version of our Image Search:

    This is only the beginning! We’ve already begun work on incorporating other Chromatik features into our Exalead Image Search. So be sure to check back soon, and in the meantime, we’d love to receive your feedback on feedback.exalead.com.