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Media Asset Management

Managing digital media assets is a "mission critical" requirement of an ever-growing number of government agencies for whom images and video are an important element of their daily workflow. The need to work with these assets efficiently and to be able to re-use and repurpose this material is key to the bottom line. Although significant investments are being made to put in place comprehensive Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions, to truly leverage the value of these assets there is missing ingredient that only piXlogic can provide.

piXlogic makes the most of your content management system by adding a new layer of functionality that leverages the visual information content of your media assets. The piXlogic software automatically captures object level information in your images and video at the time that this material is first "ingested" (or "checked-in") to your content management system. This gives you the opportunity to work with the material at a "logical content" level, not just at the "container" level. You don't have to worry about manually entering a complete description of what's in an image or a video sequence (e.g. this is a picture of a round, brown table, with four chairs and a flower pot, two people sitting, and one standing, a lamp, etc. etc.). The piXlogic software will do much of this work for you automatically, and allow you to interact with the index visually.

The piXlogic software can help you in a range of Media Asset Management applications, and bring value to your end-users by introducing features such as:

• Intelligent Visual Object Search
  With a very small computational cost, archived video and image libraries are searched visually, at an object level, more accurately than ever before. In addition the media library can be searched using external images.



• Smart Browsing
  With piXlogic, the media library are navigated visually as the user sees fit by relating images and video segments that contain the same or similar objects.



• Keywords Suggest
  piXlogic can suggest keywords for your new images and videos based on degree of object similarity/commonality to assets already part of your asset library. The manual effort needed to add keyword metadata is reduced, keywords become more consistent, and over time the scope of the keyword entries becomes richer and more consistent for all your managed assets.



• Dynamic Video Segmentation
  Scene analysis is the most common way to segment a video. This segmentation is usually done at the time of ingestion, and is static (e.g. only done once at the time of indexing). With piXlogic, indexed video is segmented at the time the user carries out a search, and that segmentation reflects the search subject. This is a much more powerful way to present and organize the contents of a video library to the end user.