Catalogue technologique

The targeted users and customers are the multimedia industry actors, and all academic or industrial laboratories interested in object tracking in videos.

• Target tracking
• Video analysis
• Multimedia document processing

• Multimedia Content Providers
• Movie/TV Streaming Providers
• Movie/TV Industry Actors

• Movie/TV Streaming & Playback
• Second Screen

The targeted users and customers are the multimedia industry actors, and all academic or industrial laboratories interested in textual document processing.

• Textual and multimedia document processing

• Researchers
• Developers
• Integrators

As translation quality is far below the work of professional human translators, machine translation is targeted to situations where instant access and low cost are key and high quality is not demanded, for example:

• Internet search (cross-language document retrieval)
• Internet (on-the-fly translation of foreign-language websites or news feeds)

With AlvisAE, remote users display annotated documents in their web browser and manually create new annotations over the text and share them.

• Any sector using text documents
• Information Extraction
• Contents analysis

Companies who want to integrate the transcription of human speech into their products.

Speech-to-Text technology is key to indexing multimedia content as it is found in multimedia databases or in video and audio collections on the World Wide Web, and to make it searchable by human queries. In addition, it offers a natural interface for submitting and executing queries.

This technology is further part of speech-translation services. In combination with machine translation technology, it is possible to design machines that take human speech as input and translate it into a new language. This can be used to enable human-to-human combination across the language barrier or to access languages in a cross-lingual way.

Everyone who has to group a large set of images in such a way that images in the same group are more similar to each other than to those in other groups, like for instance, in incoming mail processing.

• Banking
• Insurance
• Industry

• Professional customers:
  • Content owners
  • Content providers
  • Service providers
• Consumers

• Content targeting
• Content recommending
• Content retrieving
• Content discovering
• Content browsing
• Content replaying

Web contributors’ reviews and comments posted on dedicated web sites have proven to embed cleverness from which valuable descriptive metadata can be extracted. These descriptive metadata, while being synchronized with the content timeline or not, help any of the above usages and services about content. Furthermore, these associated metadata raise the value of the related content over time, which is of interest to content owners as well as to content providers.

Question-answering is for both the general public to retrieve precise information in raw texts, and for companies and organizations, that have specific text mining needs. Question-answering systems suggest short answers and their justification passage to questions provided in natural language.

Extension of search engine, technology monitoring

• Content providers
• ISP (Internet Service Provider)
• Video editing software companies

• Video structuring
• Video archiving