Recent Relevant Articles

• December 22nd, 2005
  Porn Images And Movies Found In HPD Computers   KHNL.com
  Excerpt:   "A civilian computer analyst who allegedly kept about 60,000 pornographic images stored on Honolulu Police Department computers has been named in an indictment." (More...)




• December 22nd, 2005
  Image Search Requests Skyrockets 37 Percent  Nielsen//Net Ratings
  Excerpt:   "Picture It – Image Queries Take the Lead in Growing Up
  Image is the fastest growing vertical among the search requests across all search engines. While general Web searching continues to capture the largest search activity, requests for images shot up to 328 million queries in October, up 36.6 percent from five months prior (see Table 2). Local, Web and News searches strong growth as well, garnering increases of 19.2 percent, 14.2 percent and 12.7 percent, respectively," (More...)




• August 12th, 2005
  Police computer images ruled 'objectionable'   Stuff/Top Story
  by Staff
  Excerpt:   "In April it was announced that 328 police officers - including 50 senior staff - were under investigation following the discovery of around 5000 sexually explicit images stored in the computer system. ... Anyone having objectionable images could potentially face criminal charges."




• August 8th, 2005
  Searching for the Next Big Thing   InternetNews.com/Ecommerce
  by Susan Kuchinskas
  Excerpt:   "Nielsen/NetRatings said image search was the main driver of search growth for the top five search engines last quarter.   MSN Image Search grew fastest at 90 percent, with AOL Image Search growing 74 percent, and Yahoo Image Search growing 55 percent.   Google, with the oldest and most established image search, grew just 12 percent, but it completed more than three times as many image searches as Yahoo, the next highest in volume of searches."




• July 2005
  VIMA Powers Image Search for Media Bakery   LookSmart Tech and Games | Cameras (LookSmartCameras.com)
  by Nattie Hartsock
  Excerpt:   "We carry many collections from worldwide suppliers and one of the limitations on relying just on keyword search is the language barrier that exists in the descriptive adjectives used to caption images. We know this visual search technology addresses that barrier," Newell said.
  
  Another stock photography company employing the search technology with marked success is the Danita Delimont Stock Photography agency.  The agency's founder and CEO, Danita Delimont, former national president of the American Society of Picture Professionals said, "I've seen how this technology has evolved in the past five years and this really is cutting-edge technology that lets me compete right up there with the big boys.  It helps our users significantly reduce their search time by helping them continually refocus their image search," Delimont said.




• July 21st, 2005
  Nielsen//NetRatings points to image search as the main vertical that drove growth of four of top five search engines during Q2 as compared to Q1   NetRatings.com
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• July 21st, 2005
  AOL & ASK Show Growth In Searches But Big Players Still Big   SearchEngineWatch/blog.searchenginewatch.com by Danny Sullivan
  Excerpt:   "And I think that's an important lesson you'll see going forward.   It's always been hard to go after the established players on plain old search.   But roll out an important vertical [image search], and you might attract people who wouldn't have thought of you the first time."




• March 31st, 2004
  Search Prototype Gets the Picture   CNET News.com
  by Michael Kanellos and Stefanie Olsen
  Excerpt:   "We're focused on providing an interface that lets a user ask for an image 'more like this or more like that,' based on the image features rather than text. "

White Papers

• VIMA Filter: Objectionable Image and Website Filter

• Perception-Based Image Retrieval (PBIR)
  
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Technical Publications (available on request)

• An Anatomy of A Large-scale Image Search Engine, W. Lai, E. Chang, and T. Cheng, VIMA Technologies Technical Paper, Nov. 2001.
• An Anatomy of Multimodal Personalized Information Filter, Yi-Leh Wu, et al, VIMA Technologies Technical Paper, April. 2002.

Additional technical papers published by the founders and engineering staff at VIMA are available on request from the company.