Image recognition and search platform in the cloud - making it easier and more affordable to integrate image matching and similarity search into applications for mobile advertising, media, publishing, eCommerce and more
Paris/NY, Nov. 04, 2009. LTU technologies, pioneer of image recognition and search technologies, whose licensed software platform, LTU engine®, has been adopted by commercial and government organizations worldwide since 2000, today launched LTU engine/ON demand. This hosted version of LTU engine offers LTU technologies’ advanced image recognition and search capabilities at a flexible price that is directly linked to the usage of the platform.
Offered as an affordable pay-per-capacity model, LTU engine/ON demand requires little upfront financial investment, no additional hardware and as a hosted service there are no recurring maintenance or upgrade fees.
"Having been in this industry for 10 years now, it is extremely rewarding to see that organizations of all sizes and across a variety of industries are realizing the tremendous value of image recognition technologies,” said Alexandre Winter, CEO and co-founder of LTU technologies. “LTU engine/ON demand does not require resources to deploy and maintain internally. This new platform will enable developers of mobile applications, websites, online communities and other consumer applications to easily and affordably integrate our technologies, making image recognition a standard feature,” added Winter.
LTU engine/ON demand is extremely flexible and integrates seamlessly with most software and hardware systems. The platform features cutting-edge image matching and similarity search performed at exceptional speed and accuracy levels. Images can be matched regardless of cropping, sizing, rotations, perspective, compilations and image quality, proven especially powerful for tracking image usage and integration with mobile applications.
In conjunction with the release of LTU engine/ON demand, LTU technologies is also launching the LTU developer network – a program that provides developers free access to its platform API for integration into new or existing solutions and applications. Developers can join the program at http://www.ltutech.com/en/ltu-developer-network.
About LTU technologies
Founded in 1999 by scientists from MIT, Oxford University and INRIA, LTU technologies provides cutting-edge image recognition and visual search technologies to leading commercial and government organizations worldwide.
The technology has successfully been integrated into both commercial and government solutions for brand and copyright protection, police investigations (stolen art, child abuse), media intelligence and advertisement tracking, site search for eCommerce and stock photography, mobile applications and many more. Clients include PureShopping.com, Corbis, US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (DHS-ICE), the French Gendarmerie Nationale and agencies investigating traffic in cultural goods and stolen objects (OCBC of the French National Police). LTU technologies has offices in Paris and New York. For more information, visit http://www.ltutech.com.
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