Comments on: Viewdle Funded by KIT Capital, Partners with ROO

By: Le Web Has A Room With A Viewdle - Startup Winners Picked | Q u a r a r a

Le Web Has A Room With A Viewdle - Startup Winners Picked | Q u a r a r a — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:55:18 +0000

[...] won an unspecified amount of funding from KIT Capital earlier this year. As part of the deal, Viewdle will partner up with ROO, another KIT portfolio company focused on [...]

By: Le Web Has A Room With A Viewdle - Startup Winners Picked

Le Web Has A Room With A Viewdle - Startup Winners Picked — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:03:41 +0000

[...] won an unspecified amount of funding from KIT Capital earlier this year. As part of the deal, Viewdle will partner up with ROO, another KIT portfolio company focused on [...]

By: March 25, 2008 | next media update

March 25, 2008 | next media update — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:14:01 +0000

[...] Viewdle Funded by KIT Capital, Partners with ROO TECHCRUNCH Viewdle, a startup developing facial recognition technology for video, has received an unspecified amount of funding from KIT Capital . As part of the deal, Viewdle will partner up with ROO , another KIT portfolio company focused on IPTV broadcasting. The partnership will provide ROO with full and exclusive access to Viewdle’s white label technology. Both companies will also work together to promote each other’s services. Reuters currently uses Viewdle’s technology to index the people in its video archives Source> [...]

By: Scott Elkin

Scott Elkin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:21:04 +0000

Only one problem; that’s his twin brother Dan.

By: Yegor Anchishkin

Yegor Anchishkin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:34:03 +0000

To #2.
Viewdle tech was developed specifically for highly scalable applications. Right now we have much bigger database then one accessible at reuters.viewdle.com – we show there only people who appeared in Reuters content.
Take into account also that our PersonsDB is semantically accurate – you see a thumbnail for a person, and two persons are never mixed in one record.

But you are right that we have to bring massive automated tagging of “long tail personas” to mainstream media. That is current work in progress (API).
Stay tuned.

By: KIT Capital Funds Viewdle For Video Facial Recognition Technology

KIT Capital Funds Viewdle For Video Facial Recognition Technology — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:41:45 +0000

[...] online video advertising network. ROO will have access to Viewdle’s technology. According to TechCrunch, Reuters currently uses Viewdle to identify the people in their video [...]

By: NobuNobu

NobuNobu — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:18:51 +0000

Could Viewdle be a better Video Search engine than Blinkx?

By: NobuNobu

NobuNobu — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:17:30 +0000

Will Viewdle.com be a better Video search engine than Blinkx.com?

By: Honor Gunday

Honor Gunday — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:43:05 +0000

It’s interesting that there is no mention of the fact that the company/technology was originally from Ukraine.

By: Jude Gore

Jude Gore — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:00:49 +0000

Resistance is Viewdle?

By: Chris L

Chris L — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:33:48 +0000

I think it will be cool when videos can have transcripts generated automatically. Politicians will have some rough days ahead of them when that happens.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:25:58 +0000

Tuzman is making some serious moves to bring value to his Roo player. Moving to Dubai to be closer to his international client base is a good start. Bringing SputnikAgency into majority ownership and appointing Sputnik’s CEO over as President of Roo brings the web and brand dev. end front and center.

Purchasing Kamera.com for their existing mobile customers on the European front for near nothing was strategic as well.

This on top of the license of Abacast vid on demand and Pando’s P2P software allows Roo to offer clients everything they need to meet the demands of IPTV for the immediate future at least.

Trades as RGRP.ob, plenty of risk at the moment IMO but worth a peek.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:16:26 +0000

Would be cool if I could upload a photo of myself from my local to viewdle to find every pic of me on the net!

Maybe that is where they are going…

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:57:43 +0000

Upon first glance I thought that was Demetri Martin.

By: Terry B

Terry B — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:52:55 +0000

Congrats to Viewdle! How exactly do you pronounce that?

By: Cian

Cian — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:51:53 +0000

I think FBI/CIA have been having wet dreams about this kind of thing for years.

On a serious note, I think it has tonnes of applications that industry insiders would appreciate. One application could be bookmarking the point on a video at which that person appears. ie, rather than having to cycle through the whole tape, you can jump right to the parts where the person shows up?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:45:19 +0000

C’mon Jon Heder’s hardly a challenge given his teeth account for 50% of his face.

By: Zach Weisman

Zach Weisman — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:27:23 +0000

Truthfully what is the added value of this feature if it can’t scale to include millions of faces. I mean is it that difficult to find videos with celebrities via typical text searches? The last time I searched for Paris Hilton I found that most of her videos are well tagged and are full of her name in the title/metadata…

Don’t get me wrong, I think this is really really cool. I just don’t see a problem that it solves unless it is able to expand beyond a small group of already famous people.

By: Webdesign

Webdesign — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:13:33 +0000

Now that’s smart thinking