Viewdle looks inside every frame of a video to identify and deliver factual, contextually-relevant search results at a level of granularity not possible with existing video search functionality, most notably through pioneering facial-recognition technology.

Viewdle has developed a technology that allows the automatic indexing of low resolution TV quality videos, based on the semantical analysis of the image (face recognition, motion detection, body detection), the sound (speech2text) and textual information (metatags and optical character recognition). Combining robust technologies from all three dimensions -text, audio, and video- Viewdle delivers a semantically-accurate video search experience.

Its facial recognition engine is very scalable (less than 1% of false positive, on a database of 34,000 reference people, and growing), and fast (real-time performances on simple off-the-shelf servers, with sub-linear dependency to the size of the reference database). The technology is based on proprietary algorithms, developed by Viewdle's R&D team in Ukraine.

Since Viewdle's launch as a TechCrunch40 presenter in September 2007, the company has released a series of widgets, an election coverage tracker and a private beta of the ultimate video search destination site, Viewdle.tv.  Please visit www.viewdle.com to see how it works and experience the Viewdle's differentiation first-hand.

Viewdle launched in September 2007 as a TechCrunch40 presenting company. Viewdle was named a "Best Technology Innovation/Achievement" Crunchies 2007 Award finalist and LIFT ’08 presenting company. Viewdle is also 2008 European Start-up of the Year, from the Plugg European Start-ups Rally 2008.

Viewdle's facial recognition engine is very scalable (less than 1% of false positive, on a database of 34,000 reference people, and growing), and fast (real-time performances on simple off-the-shelf servers, with sub-linear dependency to the size of the reference database). The technology is based on proprietary algorithms, developed by Viewdle's R&D team in Ukraine.

Laurent Gil (President):

Laurent Gil is president of Viewdle. He is responsible for Viewdle’s day-day-operations, including business strategy, business development activities and investor relations outreach.

Prior to joining Viewdle, Laurent was a senior investment banker that held various positions in corporate finance and capital markets at the French investment bank Credit Agricole, with assignments in New York, Tokyo and Paris. During his MBA at Wharton, he co-founded a boutique investment bank in Brazil that completed several large transactions in the telecom sector in Latin America. He also co-founded and served as CFO of TAHO, a wireless internet service provider in Rio de Janeiro, which raised US $10MM in 2001 and subsequently launched a service of broadband wireless internet in communities. Additionally, Laurent has run a successful oil and gas exploration company, which was recently sold under his watch.

Laurent is a Summa Cum Laude graduate from The University of Bordeaux in France with a B.S. in mathematics, physics and computer science; he holds a Master of Science degree in signal processing from the French graduate engineering school Supélec, a post-graduate degree in management from the Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris, France and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, USA (2003)

• laurent gil June 05, 2008

  i just posted a video.
  
  thank you for your comment.
  
• Bambi Francisco Roizen June 04, 2008

  Sounds cool. Can you provide a video demo or a video of you pitching the company?