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May 2001
GUNS OR ROSES
Looking for a C7A1 assault rifle or a Chantilly rose patterned rug but not quite sure what the "official" name is? Convera, offspring of Intel Corporation and Excalibur Technologies offers intelligent search technology for managing multimedia digital content assets. You can find what you're looking for based on images rather than words.
Honeywell/DOE
is using Convera Visual RetrievalWare to search across over
10,000 photographic images of weapons materials standards
and other information saved as JPEGs. More than a million
product-related x-ray images are scheduled to be added to
the archive. Honeywell manufactures state of the art electronic
components for national defense systems.
Visual RetrievalWare is the first comprehensive application development software to automatically index and retrieve visual data. Each component is "learned" by the system based on visual criteria characteristics, and then reduced to a searchable index where users can search by image content or metadata. Among Convera's diverse customer base are ErugGallery.com, ABC News, British Telecom, chicagotribune.com, Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, Exodus, FOXSPORTS.com, LATimes.com, Microsoft, the National Basketball Association, Raytheon, Reuters, Sony, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems and others.
Further bending reality, it is also possible to not only be "beamed" to another location, but the location itself may well be a real-time, full-sensory environment that may or may not exist in the brick and mortar world we are most familiar with.
