Virage, Incorporated

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Bradley Horowitz

Richard D Humphrey

Charles Fuller

Ramesh Jain

Amarnath Gupta

Jeffrey R Bach

David Girouard

Arun Hampapur

Chiao-Fe Shu

Mojgan Monika Gorkani

Michael J Portuesi

Charles E Fuller

Chiao-fe Shu

A system and method for applying a database to video multimedia is disclosed. Certain embodiments provide media content owners the capability to exploit video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling visual content on a network. Mechanisms of associating video with commerce offerings are provided. Video server and search server technologies are integrated with ad serving personalization agents to make the final presentations of content and advertising. Algorithms utilized by the system use a variety of techniques for making the final presentation decisions of which ads, with which content, are served to which user.

System and method for applying a database to video multimedia

A system and method that provide media content owners the capability to achieve community building goals by exploiting video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling media content on a network or Internet website. The system and method additionally provide website community building mechanisms to community members, thereby allowing the members to customize the actual community websites that many companies and website owners seek in order to enhance e-commerce revenue generation.

Video-enabled community building

A system and method for applying a database to video multimedia is disclosed. One embodiment provides media content owners the capability to exploit video processing capabilities using rich, interactive and compelling visual content on a network. Mechanisms of associating video with commerce offerings are provided. Video server and search server technologies are integrated with ad serving personalization agents to make the final presentations of content and advertising. Algorithms utilized by the system use a variety of techniques for making the final presentation decisions of which ads, with which content, served to which user.

A system and method that provide a hosted application and associated services for encoding, indexing, publishing and searching video media to content owners on a public network. The system and method allow the user interface to be customized and injected into the content-owner's website using dynamic HTML and template-based presentation mechanisms, thereby greatly enhancing the website's branding, advertising, and community building capabilities.

Interactive video application hosting

One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for video cataloging. The video is cataloged according to predefined or user definable metadata. The metadata is used to index and then retrieve encoded video.

Video cataloger system with audio track extraction

System and method for hosting of video content over a network

One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for video cataloging. The video is cataloged according to predefined or user definable metadata. The metadata is used to index and then retrieve encoded video. In one embodiment, the video is cataloged concurrently with encoding of the video.

Video cataloger system with synchronized encoders

One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for video cataloging. The video is cataloged according to predefined or user definable metadata. The metadata is used to index and then retrieve encoded video. In another aspect of the invention, video metadata track processors convert metadata tracks of the video information to produce displayable frames containing hyperlinking between displayable data. Another aspect of the invention is directed to a method of browsing stored video information, including displaying hyperlinked frames of metadata track representations, and selecting and displaying links between displayable frames.

Video cataloger system with hyperlinked output

One aspect of the invention is directed to a system and method for video cataloging. The video is cataloged according to predefined or user definable metadata. The metadata is used to index and then retrieve encoded video. Video feature extractors produce metadata tracks from the video information, and each metadata track indexes the stored video information. A feature extractor registration interface registers the video feature extractors, providing for registration with the video engine of new video feature extractors with new metadata tracks.

Video cataloger system with extensibility

One aspect of the invention is directed to a search engine having indexed retrieval to improve computational efficiency of searching large databases of rich objects such as images. Feature vectors are extracted from images and stored in a feature vector database. When a query is submitted to the engine, a query feature vector Q will be specified, as well as a distance threshold T, indicating the maximum distance that is of interest for this query. All images within a distance of T will be identified by the query. Range constraints are defined such that all feature vectors within a distance of T of the query feature vector, satisfy all of the range constraints. The constraint is dependent on the specific primitive being indexed. The constraint is also defined such that any feature vector which is within a distance of T of the query feature vector also satisfies a functional constraint. By reducing the number of feature vectors retrieved from the database and the number of feature vector comparisons, the query process becomes much more efficient.

Indexing method for image search engine

A system and method for improving the retrieval performance of a query engine in a visual information retrieval (VIR) system by encoding domain-specific knowledge into the VIR system through a visual dictionary or 'victionary'. The victionary is a dictionary-like information-mapping module that is used to retrieve visual information at a 'semantic' level. A VIR system that performs generic image processing is enhanced by adding a query transformation unit and a query expansion unit, i.e., the victionary. With these additional components, a user may present a query either as a text term (such as a keyword or phrase), or as an image (with weights) and execute a 'semantic query'. During semantic query processing, the victionary-enhanced system transforms the user's original term (or image query) to a set of equivalent queries, and internally executes all the equivalent queries before presenting the results to the user. The victionary unit is responsible for taking the term (or image query) and finding the equivalent feature vectors (and weights). A result processor accumulates the score sheets of each equivalent query and presents a composite ranking that reflects a faithful representation of each equivalent query to the user. The architecture of the victionary-enhanced system is open and extensible, so that one or more domain-specific victionary modules can be plugged into the system. The plug-in architecture of the victionary module is effected through an application programming interface (API).

Visual dictionary

A system and method for content-based search and retrieval of visual objects. A base visual information retrieval (VIR) engine utilizes a set of universal primitives to operate on the visual objects. An extensible VIR engine allows custom, modular primitives to be defined and registered. A custom primitive addresses domain specific problems and can utilize any image understanding technique. Object attributes can be extracted over the entire image or over only a portion of the object. A schema is defined as a specific collection of primitives. A specific schema implies a specific set of visual features to be processed and a corresponding feature vector to be used for content-based similarity scoring. A primitive registration interface registers custom primitives and facilitates storing of an analysis function and a comparison function to a schema table. A heterogeneous comparison allows objects analyzed by different schemas to be compared if at least one primitive is in common between the schemas. A threshold-based comparison is utilized to improve performance of the VIR engine. A distance between two feature vectors is computed in any of the comparison processes so as to generate a similarity score.

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