piXlogic Solutions for the Public Sector

piXserve™ is an enterprise class application that automatically creates a searchable index of the visual contents of media files. piXserve "sees" the contents of digital images and videos, and stores a description of this content in a searchable form.

piXserve enables:

• Content Discovery - find pictures/videos that contain specific objects, scenes, text, or people of interest 
• Content Auto-tagging - automatically label an image/video 
• Content Alerting - automatically inform users when items of interest appear in a live video stream or web crawl 

Key features:

Automatic Indexing 
Point piXserve to a repository of images and video, and automatically index their contents with no manual intervention or data entry required. piXserve "sees" what is in the image and automatically creates records that describe the content. Whatever is in the image (objects, faces, text, foreground, background, etc.) is automatically indexed.

Powerful Search
Through a web browser interface, users login to piXserve, connect to available databases, and formulate search queries to retrieve images and specific segments of video files. Search capabilities includeUse an arbitrary image from user's desktop to search for images/video segments that contain the same or similar items: Use the mouse to point to an area of the query image to indicate which specific item(s) should be searched for

• Browse the contents of existing databases and use any of those images to formulate a visual search query
• Use an arbitrary image from user's desktop to search for images/video segments that contain the same or similar items
• Use the mouse to point to an area of the query image to indicate which specific item(s) should be searched for
• Browse the contents of existing databases and use any of those images to formulate a visual search query
• Type a text string to search pictures/videos where that string appears in the field of view
• Perform not only simple but also complex searches (Example: type a text string to retrieve broadcast news segments where that word is visible on the screen, and then use a picture to search those results and retrieve segments where both the text string and the desired visual object(s) are in the same frame
• Search by file name
• Search by keyword or other external metadata, if available

Powerful Automated Tagging

• Automatically tag images/video frames with the name of recognized individuals that appear therein (automated face naming)
• Suggest keywords to describe the contents of a picture/video frame (automated keyword recommendations)
• Submit sample images of objects of interest and automatically tag images/video frames when these items are visible. (automated object detection and naming)

Powerful Alerts
Create alert criteria just as you would formulate a search query. piXserve-ALERT keeps track of what piXserve machines on the network are indexing and when a match is made consistent with what the user specified, it generates a signal. The user receives an e-mail with a link to the alert results. A JMS (Java Messaging Service) signal is also generated to pass the alert on to other systems and applications for further action. Powerful Metadata

The richness of metadata calculated by piXserve about each image/video frame processed (objects and tags), can be exploited to enable customized applications that are of high value in a variety of settings such as:

• Scaleable Architecture piXserve is an enterprise-class, J2EE scalable application that is suitable for the most demanding implementations. Cloud versions of the software are also available.

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The piXserve-ALERT software resides on its own server and interacts with other piXserve computers on the customer network. With piXserve-ALERT, users can create a search query and convert it to an alert criteria. piXserve-ALERT keeps track of what piXserve machines are indexing in near real time (broadcast video programs, security videos, web-crawls, etc.) and when a match is made, an email with a link is sent to the user where piXserve displays the image/video-segment that has the content of interest. From the standard piXserve user interface, users can manage their alerts, share them with other members of their organization, review a history of triggers for each alert, create new ones, delete old ones, and more.

piXserve-ALERT also generates a message that can be picked up by third party applications (via the Java Messaging Service). Messages can be used to trigger actions by other software programs (start to record, send a notification, close a door, etc.). The third party application simply connects to the message store via TCP/IP and picks up new messages that have been added to the cue.

piXserve-ALERT has been designed for scalability in order to handle large volumes of alerts from large populations of users. Please contact us to learn more about the product and to discuss your needs and requirements.

The piXserve™ Web Services API has been designed to allow access to piXserve functionality from third party applications. If you are a customer operating a web site and wish to provide some of the piXserve features to your users without exposing the full piXserve interface, the Web Services API is for you. If you are a systems integrator and are building custom solutions for your customers and want to incorporate image and video search functionality in your deliverables, the Web Services API is for you. If you are building a stack of cloud services and want to integrate piXserve for internal or commercial use, the Web Services API is also for you.

The piXserve Web-Service API is based on a REST (Representational State Transfer) architecture. It is stateless and utilizes simple HTTP methods such as POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE, for implementation.

The piXserve Web-Service API is extensive, and gives access to all of the functionality available through piXserve's own user interface. A separate API is available for each version of piXserve (Web, Standard, Professional, Enterprise, Alert, and Elastic Cloud Standard). The API package comprises a set of documents, a license, technical support, and training.

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piXlogic has teamed with Amazon and VMware to make cloud-enabled versions of its software available on both platforms. The Standard Edition and the Professional Edition of piXserve are available for both public and private cloud environments and are conveniently priced on GSA. This utility-based service model provides the convenience and flexibility to "pay-as-you-go" and scale your piXserve deployment based on current need.

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Images and videos have become a critical element in the workflow of most enterprises. The diversity, volume, and breadth of sources create a significant challenge to traditional content management/digital asset management systems. The vast majority of this type of content has essentially no metadata associated with it, so unless a person knows where it is, what it is, and how it relates to other things, the material is essentially "dark."

Organizations incur the cost of procuring, transmitting, and storing this material, but do not fully enjoy the benefits of its inherent value. In situations that involve litigation there are also risks associated with not knowing that the material exists somewhere within the enterprise. In military and mission planning situations, not being able to locate the right information or knowing that it exists can be fatal.

The advent of cell phones and other portable image/video acquisition devices are turning everyone into a broadcaster. We are using pictures and videos not only to communicate but also to document. The trend is clear.

By providing a comprehensive set of automatic indexing, searching, auto-tagging, and alerting capabilities, piXserve has become an indispensable tool in many enterprise and government environments.

piXserve™ is a client/server application that automatically creates a searchable index of the visual contents of media files. piXserve "sees" the contents of digital images and videos, and stores a description of this content in an XML database. It can also recognize objects, text, and faces of interest to users and can automatically add searchable tags to images and videos where those items are seen by the software.

piXserve can also read text that may appear in the field of view of the image, and do so in a variety of languages and character sets. piXserve can see and recognize text in complex color images and videos at a level of accuracy that is unmatched in the industry.

With piXserve™, users can:

• Search through a web browser interface and retrieve images and video segments that contain visual objects that are the same or similar to those in their query pictures
• Select specific items in their query image to search
• Formulate search queries using more than one image as an input
• Type a text string and retrieve images/video sequences where such text appears in the image

The piXserve visual search capabilities are complemented by an unparalleled level of auto-tagging capabilities. When the software indexes images/video frames, it tries to add as many keywords/tags as it can to the records that it creates describing the content of the images. piXserve creates keyword descriptors using four mechanisms:

• Face Naming - users can give a name to a face. When piXserve indexes new images/videos, it checks for the presence of faces and if one is detected it checks to see if it is one of those previously named by users. If it is, the name of that person will be assigned as a searchable keyword for that image/video-frame.
• Object Recognition - users can provide an image of an item of interest, and can give that example a name (a logo, a specific can of soda, a bag of potato chips, a specific car make/model, etc.). During indexing, piXserve will check for the presence of that item of interest, and if it is detected it will add a keyword record to that image/video frame.
• Notions - piXserve can recognize certain generic concepts that may be visible in the image (we call these "notions"). A library of "notions" is included in piXserve and the notions cover a broad spectrum of concepts.
• Keyword Recommendations - piXserve can suggest keywords that could pertain to a picture based on the degree of similarity between the contents of that image and others previously indexed by piXserve.

To learn more about piXserve and how it can help your organization, please contact us.

Most video surveillance and security systems offer limited options for automating processes such as searching archived video or generating alerts from live video. Often, a significant amount of manpower is required to carry out even simple search tasks. In many investigative situations, manpower and time resources are at a premium and as a result most organizations are not deriving the full benefit of their investment in video surveillance.If you are concerned with the cost, speed, and accuracy of your video investigative work, whether it be forensic in nature or dealing with live video situations, then you should consider piXserve as a "must-have" add-on to your current system.piXserve extends the capabilities of today's systems by adding the ability to automatically analyze the video that is being collected and stored. These video streams can be intercepted by piXserve and analyzed for alerting purposes. Similarly, recorded video can be analyzed, searched, and correlated using piXserve.The analytical capabilities in piXserve support: Facial recognition General purpose object detection and recognition Text recognition License plate recognition Automatic tagging All the indexing work is done automatically, server side, and in the background. Users are then free to create visually-based search criteria and navigate the body of accumulated material. They can do all of this "on the fly," as they see fit at the moment, based on whatever problem or situation they are dealing with. Users can "drag-and-drop" a picture from anywhere to formulate a search query or pause a video while it's playing and use that frame to create a new search criteria or refine an existing one. These capabilities greatly simplify the discovery process precisely in those situations when the user isn't quite sure what they are looking for and are working in an investigative/exploratory mode. To learn more about piXserve and how it can help your organization, please contact us.

Images and videos have always been key elements of intelligence and defense operations. In recent years, the scope and diversity of digital imagery has greatly increased in every area: ground, satellite, UAV, surveillance, broadcast, etc. The volume of material being acquired and stored is staggering, with no visible plateau in sight.

Traditional methods of organizing, cataloguing, and distributing this material to analysts and Warfighters are becoming impractical due to the scale involved. On the other hand, timely access to nuggets of vital information contained in images/videos is key to operational success. The ability to cross-correlate the information, whether it's being obtained from live sources or from archived repositories, is more important than ever. In this environment, image/video search and retrieval has become the new "must have" element of any comprehensive solution. piXserve is a general-purpose image/video search and alerting solution. Its extensive set of capabilities makes it a perfect-fit solution to many special problems faced by the military and intelligence community. For example, piXserve can run in compact form on a UAV, and analyze that video in near real time for the presence of objects of interest. In one mode of use, only those "snippets" of interesting material need to be transmitted to ground stations, thereby relieving network pressures and letting operators focus on the most important things.

On a larger scale, piXserve can analyze WAMI images, make that material searchable (ad-hoc object level searches), and automatically tag objects of interest visible in the images.

Additionally, images and videos from websites of interest can be indexed and searched. Text and drawings on pictures become searchable with just a few clicks of the mouse; faces of unknown individuals can be quickly correlated among disparate image/video sources; news broadcasts from foreign countries can be mined for content of interest. These and many other use-cases are made possible by the broad range of functions available in piXserve.

To learn more about piXserve and how it can help your organization, please contact us.