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| Founded |
Founded in 2003. Became an independent legal entity in 2007. |
| Location |
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington |
Executive
Managment |
John Hafen, CEO
Imad Zoghlami PhD, CTO
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The
Web Search
Space |
Today’s search engines were designed from the ground up to retrieve images based on keywords from captions or in context to an article. While this approach works well for retrieving alphanumeric data, it is inadequate on many occasions for rich digital media because these keywords rely on rich hyperlinks, audio, anchor tags, metadata, path names, font size, watermarking, and page formatting to deliver results. While vast improvements have been made to make rich digital media content searchable, the current model of relying on humans to bias algorithms, tag, describe, and classify images will not scale as more photos, videos, and other forms of rich media find their way online. |
The
Eyealike
Solution |
The Eyealike Visual Search (VS) platform is the first enterpriseclass search solution for facial recognition, image detection, and video copyright surveillance. Instead of relying solely on keywords and text, the patentpending Eyealike (VS) Platform takes a unique approach to finding object/facial exact and similarity matches by looking beyond the basic shape features and text in an image or video. In addition to basic shape/color/texture feature analysis as well as object movement, the Eyealike VS platform extends its searching capability by extracting and comparing additional features such as skin color, hair color, hair texture/style, and smart, 3D modeldriven feature analysis. This combination enables still image recognition, object movement recognition, text recognition, and biometrics for facial recognition that goes well beyond today’s search technologies to increase the speed, scale, and relevancy of searching rich media collections.
The platform was designed in a modular fashion to perform specific applications such as facial search for online dating and copyright protection for movie studios and User Generated Contentcentric websites. |
Key
Differentiators |
Eyealike is the first to offer facial recognition, image detection, and video copyright surveillance on a single, yet modular visual-based search platform.
With its new imagetoimage search approach, Eyealike offers the deepest and most automated analysis of digital images and videos.
Its flexible platform is compatible with any Windows or Linux server, and its user interfaces are optimized to work on Windows and Macintosh PCs and most mobile phones including Smartphone, PocketPC and iPhone.
Easy integration with existing Web site keyword and attributebased search systems means customers don’t have to replace their current Web site frontend or other technology. |
| Ownership |
Privately-held |
| Financing |
Eyealike is partially funded by Datatec and US based angel investors. |
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