Viewdle is facial recognition software that can be used in place of metadata in video searches. Currently working to build the world's largest people-in-video reference database, the Viewdle engine searches frame-by-frame inside a given video to more accurately find relevant appearances. Viewdle, which was founded in 2006, is currently used by Reuters to identify video clips and in December won the startup competition at the LeWeb 2008 tech conference in Paris, France.PC World: LeWeb '08: Startups Plan Facebookification... (December 10, 2008) Official Site: Viewdle About Us
"The Viewdle Advantage"
- Revolutionary base technology
- Contextually relevant results
- Real-time identification
- Unrivaled scalability and performanceOfficial Site: Viewdle Technology
LeWeb3 2008 Startup Competition Results
- Viewdle (Gold)
- Webnode (Silver)
- Zoover (Bronze)
- Silentale (People's Choice)TechCrunch: LeWeb Has A Room With A Viewdle (December 10, 2008)
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Yuri Frayman
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Was a winner at the Plugg European Web 2.0 tech conferenceTechCrunch: LeWeb Has A Room With A Viewdle (December 10, 2008)
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Currently used by Reuters news agency to index news clips
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Viewdle originated in the Ukraine as an ex-military university facial recognition projectTechCrunch: LeWeb Has A Room With A Viewdle (December 10, 2008)
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Received funding from Anthem Venture Partners and Elevation PartnersTechCrunch: LeWeb Has A Room With A Viewdle (December 10, 2008)
