Corbis and VIMA Technologies Sign Agreement to Conduct Joint End-User Testing of Active Learning Visual Search

" ...we consider this an important endorsement of our image search capabilities based on visual clues and VIMA's industry-unique active learning technology."

Santa Barbara, CA - April 6th, 2005. VIMA Technologies and Corbis, Inc. of Seattle today signed an agreement to work together to formally access VIMA’s MindReader™ active-learning visual search solution with Corbis’ stock photo customers.

"In the past, Corbis has been the most proactive supporter among the industry leaders in exploring how search refinement based on visual clues could improve their clients’ ability to find the right image for their needs. Even so, this is the first time Corbis has made a financial commitment to any technology and we consider this an important endorsement of our image search capabilities based on visual clues and VIMA's industry-unique active learning technology", emphasized David Telleen-Lawton, VIMA’s CEO. "For the first time, Corbis has seen a visual refinement tool that really works. Alternative solutions that use one-click, query-by-example have never really satisfied stock photo providers nor their users."

Corbis is one of the industry’s leaders in supplying visual solutions to advertisers, editors, publishers, filmmakers, and marketers for sourcing licensing, and locating images and footage. Their images are seen daily by millions of people around the world—in magazines, newspapers, and films, on television, and in thousands of advertisements. Often the solution starts with finding the right image to convey the right message. VIMA’s MindReader™ active learning search refinement software helps the image researcher locate their image faster and with fewer keystrokes.

About VIMA Technologies, Inc.
VIMA’s patented image search and image categorization processes allow it to lead the industry in content-based image search and categorization for both speed and accuracy. VIMA is probably best known for the only active learning image search solution in the market and the only company offering tunable image categorization and filtering solutions. VIMA Technologies, Inc. is a privately financed company located in Goleta California, just across the street from the University of California at Santa Barbara. For more information, visit: www.VIMAtech.com.

About Corbis, Inc.
Corbis provides complete visual solutions used every day by publishers, advertising and design agencies, filmmakers, and other creative professionals to tell their stories with impact that goes beyond words. Image licensing, assignment & representation, and rights services enable clients around the world to differentiate brands, sell products and services, support news stories, and entertain audiences.

Corbis is headquartered in Seattle, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Montreal, London, Paris, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Milan, Amsterdam, Brussels, Warsaw, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, and Tokyo. For more information, visit www.Corbis.com.

VIMA Technologies, Inc. is located at 120 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California 93117. You can reach us by telephone at 805-685-7067 or via email at info@VIMAtech.com.

For Media Inquiries, contact:

David Telleen-Lawton
Phone: (805)685-7067
Fax: (805)685-2178
DTL@VIMAtech.com