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LTU technologies releases new LTU engine

Updated multimedia content control API platform enhances capabilities for comprehensive image search and recognition

Paris, France and Washington, DC - October 22, 2008

LTU technologies, the global leader in multimedia content control solutions, announced today a new version of its LTU engine, a comprehensive platform that packages LTU’s suite of breakthrough image and video content control and search tools into one platform, using one single application programming interface (API).

Designed for government agencies and commercial enterprises as an easy to integrate platform with a flexible API, LTU engine powers the technology to quickly and efficiently control, organize, search, or identify images and video within large databases. For the first time the platform also features new local matching and color search capabilities. Local matching enables the user to detect small, common parts between two images, or logos, within an image or video clip. Color search enables the user to sort and identify images according to various shades of color, compute color palettes for collections of objects or images or suggest color arrangements based on the colors used within a collection. In addition, the new version of LTU engine boasts enhanced search speeds and video recognition capabilities, offering customers the ability to not only manage a great amount of images, but also process videos much faster and more efficiently than ever before.

With the integration of LTU’s powerful multimedia content control and search tools, law enforcement agencies worldwide identify inappropriate and illegal content on seized computers, most often related to child pornography. Commercial enterprises have also deployed LTU’s solutions to monitor the image and video content on their own corporate networks, as well as protect intellectual property in the form of brand logos, proprietary documents and other visual assets vulnerable to copyright infringement.

The launch of LTU Engine coincides with the launch of LTU’s new website: www.ltutech.com. Aside from the new layout, LTU has provided more information about its solutions, clients, events and partners. In addition, visitors to the site can view the LTU Visual Search demo: http://corbis.demo.ltutech.com/en/demos/corbis/

Executive quote

“With the release of LTU engine today, we have brought to market a new and even more powerful way to control the content that matters most to an organization. Whether it’s to protect intellectual property, keep inappropriate content off the network, or simply have the ability to quickly search, filter and manage images more easily, LTU engine can be customized to meet those requirements,” said Alexandre Winter, CEO and co-founder of LTU technologies. “We’ve worked diligently in our research lab and with our partners to develop a platform that is flexible yet robust, and are very pleased with the result of our hard work. We are excited for our existing customers to experience the enhancements and look forward to introducing the new capabilities to companies still seeking help with their visual assets.”

Pricing and availability

LTU engine is available now with a new pricing structure. Contact sales@ltutech.com for more information.

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About LTU technologies
Founded in 1999 by veteran scientists of MIT, Oxford and INRIA, LTU technologies provide mission-critical multimedia content control software solutions. LTU is the exclusive owner and developer of its patented technology. LTU's clients include: government organizations active in the fight against child abuse, such as the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (DHS-ICE), the French Gendarmerie Nationale, and the Italian state police; agencies investigating traffic in cultural goods and stolen objects (OCBC of the French National Police); as well as commercial media organizations such as Corbis and Meredith Corporation. The technology has also successfully been integrated in third party solutions for forensics and e-Discovery, brand protection, enterprise search, digital asset management, and online content control. LTU technologies has offices in Paris, France, and Washington DC. For more information, visit http://www.ltutech.com.

Trademark Notice: LTU technologies, LTU engine, LTU moderator and LTU finder are trademarks of LTU technologies. Any other third party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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