Convera announce 'Visual RetrievalWare' availability

Convera have announced the availability of Visual RetrievalWare 5.0, the latest version of the company’s search and retrieval software development kit (SDK) for digital images and video.
Featuring new platform support, new APIs, support for additional file formats and upgraded system performance, Visual RetrievalWare enables commercial and government software developers to more effectively use their image and video content in applications such as positive identification, digital library, crime investigation, document imaging and electronic shopping initiatives. Among the customers benefiting from the use of Visual RetrievalWare are Honeywell and the Swedish intelligence community.
With this release, Convera also strengthens its position as the leading single source provider of search, retrieval and categorization solutions for all enterprise data, whether text, video, audio or image files. The capabilities made available to software developers using Visual RetrievalWare 5.0 are the same proprietary media indexing capabilities found in Convera’s RetrievalWare family of products and extensions such as Screening Room.
Visual RetrievalWare provides software developers with a rich image and video development environment that enables the creation of applications that help end users find what they are looking for based on image and video content rather than just words.
Originally released in 1996, Visual RetrievalWare was the industry’s first comprehensive application development software to automatically index and retrieve visual data.
The open architecture allows domain experts to provide their own image and video “feature extraction” algorithms, while providing a search and indexing infrastructure tailored for visual data.
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