The Vitalas system technology is envisaged to be a B2B tool which develops innovative services, with a clear potential to be adopted by a larger public and to be reused by consumers demanding robust multimedia search engines. The main advantages of VITALAS over existing technologies are:
(1) its provision of automatic annotation functions
(2) its use of innovation interfaces for searching in large audio visual archives, and
(3) its capacity to perform personalised search for each and every user.

VITALAS offers personalization that allows the system to adapt to a user’s context of operation. Knowledge about the users and their goals is key to retrieve the most relevant documents for a particular context. This results in a system that can be customised according to the needs of a particular user.

VITALAS is the Next Generation of Multimedia Search Engine that enables content-based retrieval and browsing of very large audio and visual datasets without pre-existing metadata, through different advanced technologies:

• Automatic retrieval of spoken words through advanced syllable-based speech recognition.
• Automatic annotation through generic “object” recognition allowing post-editing of multimedia content.
• Content-based filtering, re-ranking and browsing of visual contents.
• Automatic structuring of video streams.
• Automatic duplicates and near-duplicates retrieval

More information on VITALAS web site