John-Henry GrossSr. Product Marketing Manager

Effective Knowledge Organization Across All Media Types

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THE BIG CHALLENGE

• The Symptoms – Frustration of being unable to access relevant information …

– Fear that something important has been overlooked … – Failure to read, process and meaningfully act because of too many

related pieces of information

– The Gartner Group

• The Cause– Growing volume

– Many sources

– Multiple media formats

– Many languages

– Stored in different silos

– Distributed across the enterprise

– Secured with complex access rights

Does your organization suffer from information overload?

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THE CURE

• Information infrastructure that …

– Accesses all your information assets

– Organizes all your data for easy browsing

– Provides a single point of access to all your information

– Scales for enterprise-wide deployments

– Integrates readily within any environment

– Respects enterprise security

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COMPLETE INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE

EDMS • GroupWare • RDBMS • File Systems • Web • XML • Video • Image

Enterprise Content

Categorization

Profiling

Text Search

Text & AudioText & Audio

Asset Management

EditingPublishing

Video Search

Video & Image Video & Image

Portal or other Applications

Organize your information to make it more accessible

Access and monitor information repositories

Utilize information to make better decisions and improve performance

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Multi-media Content is Everywhere

Office Documents

Office Documents

Relational DatabasesRelational Databases

Document ManagementDocument

Management

Intranets / Internet/Extranets

Intranets / Internet/Extranets

AudioSpeechAudio

Speech

ExpertsExperts

NewsfeedsNewsfeeds

Uniform Access toAny Data, Anywhere

Uniform Access toAny Data, Anywhere

Group WareGroup Ware

PaperPaper

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S Y N C H R O N I Z E R S

• Making the connection

– File Systems - NT and Unix

– RDBMS – Oracle, SQL, Sybase, Informix, ODBC

– Internet – Internet Spider

– Groupware – Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange

– Document Management – Documentum, FileNET

– FileRoom – Paper-based documents

– Toolkits to make your own

ResultIntegrate with all your repositories easily and quickly

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VIDEO C A P T U R E

• Capture from any source

• Analyze structure

• Capture standard metadata

• Add custom metadata

• Capture speech and closed caption text

• Upload to database or XML file

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S E C U R I T Y

• Strong authentication support

• Distributed - single log-on across multiple instances

• Cross repository log-on

• Search results include only the information a user has the right to see

ResultRemoves security as an obstacle to information access

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C O N C E P T S E A R C H

Bridges the gap between knowledge seeker and knowledge provider

YOU SEARCH FOR“Fast growing banks”

RETRIEVALWARE RETURNS“Rapidly expanding credit unions” and all other relevant material

THE AUTHOR WROTE“Rapidly expanding credit unions”

ResultComplete and accurate results

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P A T T E R N R E C O G N I T I O N

Pattern Recognition

• Text– Typos – Misspellings– Multiple spellings– OCR errors

• Supports Image & Video – Shape– Color– Texture

ResultHighest level of recall so you don’t miss anything

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G L O B A L S O L U T I O N S

Globalization and localization very visible requirements in today’s global economy and will become only more important in the future.

Need to search in multiple languages and across languages

ResultLanguage isn’t a barrier to good search

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• Multimedia content in directories based on a taxonomy

• Supports browsing

• Supports focused search

• Can associate subject experts with categories

C A T E G O R I Z A T I O N & P R O F I L I N G

ResultEasy to administer categorieswith the highest quality content

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IMAGE RETRIEVAL

• Metadata – text search

• Visual Search

X

X

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VISUAL SEARCH

•Functions needed to reduce an image to a condensed descriptor called a feature vector

– loading, saving, cutting, pasting, rotating, scaling, dithering, quantizing, enhancing, analyzing

• Indexing, retrieval, data association, and other feature vector database management operations need to be available in a form that transparently supports both client/server and local database access.

•A Feature Extractor is an image analysis tool that distills the key characteristics of an image.

– Color– Shape – Texture– Developer created

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Image Search

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VIDEO C A P T U R E

• Capture from any source

• Create a storyboard of the video automatically

• Annotate for future searches

• Capture speech and closed caption text

• Upload to database or XML file

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• Annotate Clips and Frames

• Creation of Edit Decision List & exporting

• Create bins

• View rough cut previews

VIDEO E D I T

• Modify Storyboards

And Create New Assets

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VIDEO B R O W S E

Visual search

Intranet or Internet-based

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MULTIMEDIA SEARCH

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E N T E R P R I S E V I D E O Business Challenges

• Globally dispersed employees need consistent communication and training

• Travel security issues and costs

• Video Applications are growing– Earnings announcements– Executive addresses– Intra-company meetings– Employee education– Customer training– Product launches– Customer service– Partner training– B-to-B collaboration

INCREASED DEMAND

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E N T E R P R I S E V I D E O Business Challenges

DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH

• Hard to integrate with other materials and media

• Retrieving video is time consuming and cumbersome

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ABC NEWS – High Velocity Searching

PROBLEM

• 800 deadline-driven researchers, reporters and archivists need to find the right things fast

SELECTED SOLUTION BECAUSE

• Advanced retrieval and ability to handle multimedia• Concept search’s ability to find all relevant materials • Needed a search engine to power MARS (Media Archive

and Retrieval System), which houses program transcripts, videos, and background papers on 1.1 million items

BENEFITS

• More comprehensive and accurate material from archives for news production

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SANDIA NATIONAL LABS

PROBLEM

• Needed a solution to convert their video libraries to digital format; that could be indexed for search

SELECTED SOLUTION BECAUSE

• Screening Room enables their users to quickly and accurately search for and access relevant video assets from a standard Web browser using either a desktop or laptop computer

BENEFITS

• Reduced labor, time and travel costs associated with video management

• Improved access to video content resulting in more effective training and near-instantaneous delivery of relevant video assets

• Ability to create multimedia reports• Field employees can search and view videos on laptops

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NASA

PROBLEM

• NASA’s Johnson Space Center is using Convera’s Screening Room to manage video content originating with Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions to increase knowledge sharing among researchers.

SELECTED SOLUTION BECAUSE

• It captured, encoded, archived and managed to provide real-time and post mission analysis and re-purposing of the video over the NASA intranet.

• Allows researchers to easily search for and access relevant video assets from a desktop or laptop computer anywhere in the world.

BENEFITS

• Reduces the time to get critical content on the web• Makes archive and search easy.

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U.S. Department of Energy/Honeywell

PROBLEM

• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) archive of photographs, x-ray images, weapons materials standards and other information. Multimedia search functionality for a database of over 10,000 weapons materials standards documents, enabling weapons engineers to quickly and easily find information critical to the development of weapons

– Inventory of over 13,000 hi-resolution photographs of the people, weapons and facilities

SELECTED SOLUTION BECAUSE

• The ability to search across both text and image files from a central point.

• The ability of the system to include technical terms in the search even when other terms are used.

BENEFITS • Reduces the time to get critical information to decision makers

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eRugGallery.com

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Multimedia Demo