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Luxand offers the owners of photo-sharing and dating websites a new type of search engine that relies on the latest facial recognition technology to find photos of people and organize them for quick retrieval.

New Photo Search Engine for Photosharing Websites

Luxand has announced Luxand Face SDK 1.7, a unique facial-mapping engine that enables a website to find people by faces. Until recently, most searches worked by searching the text description surrounding the photo or the meta data. The engine from Luxand uses the latest face recognition technology to find all photos with the same person by the face, rather than words.To enable the facial search, the library scans and indexes all faces found in the photographs on the website. Then when the user wants to find someone, he needs to upload a photograph with this person to the website and the engine goes to work. It analyses the uploaded photo, detects the face, extracts its feature characteristics and matches them against thousands of other photographs in the picture database. In a matter of a few seconds, the engine displays all images, in which that exact person was found.

Unique to the Luxand’s engine is its outstanding matching accuracy. Unlike similar technologies, the library matches every single feature of the person’s face with its counterpart on the photographs from the database. The comparison accuracy of the algorithm has been checked in FERET tests and found to be the best in the category as compared to the face recognition implemented in competing commercial systems.

In addition to the facial search, the algorithm can be used to organize a large collection of photos by automatically tagging all the pictures where it finds one and the same person. The user simply needs to upload a photo and tell who the person is in this image. Then the algorithm will find all other pictures where this individual appears and tag them automatically. Automatic tagging is a great time saver for users who share hundreds of photos online as there’ll be no need for them to spend time adding tags manually.

“Our engine is an incredibly useful tool for anyone who needs to find the person but doesn’t know the name or cannot find him by textual queries,” says Alex Konoplev, CEO of Luxand. “Automatic labeling of photos using face recognition is also a great feature for the users of photo-sharing, dating or social sites like Facebook or MySpace, who demand more creative and easy ways to share and enjoy their photos with others.”

Luxand FaceSDK 1.7 is cross-platform and available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. For more information about the product, technical details about its implementation and advice, visit http://www.luxand.com/facesdk/.

Perpetuum Software has announced the availability of .Net ModelKit Suite 3.8, a suite of four components that enable .NET developers to create BI applications for reporting, data processing and visualization. Tight integration between components of the suite ensures fluidity in every aspect of your workflow, providing similar design-time and runtime customization facilities, common data management and appearance customization. All suite components are written in C# and contain only 100% managed code.

Create Business Intelligence Applications for Reporting, Data Processing and Visualization

The suite combines new versions of OLAP ModelKit^TM and Report Sharp-Shooter^TM, the use-proven Business Intelligence components for intelligent data handling and feature-rich presentation. Another component is the Instrumentation ModelKit^TM which is ideal for creating digital dashboards and KPI, offering an unmatched collection of over 130 ready-made gauges and other visual controls. Also included in .Net ModelKit Suite is the Chart ModelKit component which is designed for creating interactive charts and graphs. The components delivered in the suite minimize the coding required and provide full design-time customization.

Top 5 new benefits of .Net ModelKit Suite 3.8

The suite has been evolving over the last two years and has seen many technological improvements. The following is an overview of just some of the many exciting features and benefits you’ll find in .Net ModelKit Suite.

#1: Work with the latest Microsoft tools - Experience a new level of performance and speed using the .Net ModelKit Suite components with Visual Studio 2008.

#2: Expand your reporting with new amazing abilities - Report Sharp-Shooter offers QR Barcode, which is very popular in Japan due to its efficient encoding of Kanji characters.

#3: Reduce time for templates development - Reports Sharp-Shooter offers master style support that eliminates the need to duplicate styles. Now, styles specified in the master report are available in sub reports, and they can be assigned to any report element. The unified style of master reports and sub reports makes your reporting system more professional.

# 4: Evaluate the product with new attractive samples - New to this version is a set of sample charts and gauges with attractive styles for Instrumentation ModelKit and Chart ModelKit.

#5: Enjoy efficient application development - The re-designed user interface in all designers and viewers, new icons on the toolbars make your application even more professional.

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