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      <title>First Online Service for Automatic Visual Content Filtering Is Launched</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<div class="newsleft"><div class="newsbody"><p class="subheadline">Recogmission offers automatic porn detection service piFilter as SaaS</p><p>London, UK -- (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sbwire.com/">SBWIRE</a>) -- 05/14/2009 --   The problem of adult or porn content becomes one of the main issues for the open Web. The task of processing and filtering the adult content occurs in search engines, social networks and photo sharing sites, whose activity highly depends on user generated content. Most important issue is that adult content can affect the corporate policy, brand recognition in the market, and sometimes lead to lawsuits. Public websites may suffer from adult content, because many users including children should not see it because of ethic, religious, social or psychological issues. <br />
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Existing adult content filters use text-based analysis, so they cannot restrict access to multimedia or social media sites, because the uploaded or displayed adult images may have no special words. Search engines use the embedded &apos;Safe search&apos; mode, but it cannot ensure adult content restrictions because of the same issue - most of search engines analyse texts, not the images themselves. Moreover, text filters are too robust and can make mistakes detecting web sources with non-adult content but containing particular keywords. <br />
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To resolve the issue, web services appoint teams of content moderators who browse the content and detect the unwanted images manually. However, manual operations are time and cost consuming, and definitely not effective taking into account all financial, technical and operational issues. For small and medium-sized companies the problem even more acute because of the limited financial capabilities. <br />
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The only way to resolve the issue is using image-based solution, which is able to recognize unwanted content automatically. <br />
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Recogmission, a developer of Picollator universal search engine for cross-content search, launched the first online service piFilter.com for automatic adult content detection based on the advanced pattern recognition technologies developed by company for its global web search engine. The novelty of the service is that the content evaluation is done without manual intervention, and based on content analysis solely. Therefore the solution is language-independent, and it works for users from the North America, Europe, China, Brasil, Russia, Japan, Middle East and all other regions of the World.<br />
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Social networks, ISP, photo sharing sites or any small web site are able to connect to the service through the simple API and send the requests for processing on the basis of their own needs. The service offers multiple subscription options, while all of them are based on the natural idea &amp;#8211; the customer pays only for service usage like pay-as-you-use. Most of tariffs depend on the number of requests processed for the customer, so the company of any size can benefit from using it.<br />
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Using the service allows web sites to reduce the costs from 5 to 100 times depending on the traffic. Service is of interest to any company with a public Internet resource or providing Internet access for fixed or mobile channels.<br />
</p><p>For more information on this press release visit: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm">http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm</a></p></div><h2>Media Relations Contact</h2><p>Adrian Moxley<br />Recogmission LLC<br />Telephone: +44 7788 750717<br />Email: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/contact/27605">Click to Email Adrian Moxley</a><br />Web: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.recogmission.com">http://www.recogmission.com</a><br /></div><div><p><img src="https://cts.releasewire.com/v/?sid=27605&amp;s=f&amp;v=f" width="1" height="1" alt=""><span></span></p></div>]]></description>
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      <title>Automatic adult content filter recognizes images</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<div class="newsleft"><div class="newsbody"><p class="subheadline">Recogmission, a developer of Picollator universal search engine, launched the solution for the automatic adult content filtering based on the visual content analysis </p><p><p>London, UK -- (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sbwire.com/">SBWIRE</a>) -- 05/14/2009 --   The problem of adult or porn content becomes one of the main issues for the open Web. The task of processing and filtering the adult content occurs in search engines, social networks and photo sharing sites, whose activity highly depends on user generated content. Most important issue is that adult content can affect the corporate policy, brand recognition in the market, and sometimes lead to lawsuits. Public websites may suffer from adult content, because many users including children should not see it because of ethic, religious, social or psychological issues. </p><p>
Existing adult content filters use text-based analysis, so they cannot restrict access to multimedia or social media sites, because the uploaded or displayed adult images may have no special words. Search engines use the embedded &apos;Safe search&apos; mode, but it cannot ensure adult content restrictions because of the same issue - most of search engines analyse texts, not the images themselves. Moreover, text filters are too robust and can make mistakes detecting web sources with non-adult content but containing particular keywords. </p><p>
To resolve the issue, web services appoint teams of content moderators who browse the content and detect the unwanted images manually. However, manual operations are time and cost consuming, and definitely not effective taking into account all financial, technical and operational issues. For small and medium-sized companies the problem even more acute because of the limited financial capabilities. </p><p>
The only way to resolve the issue is using image-based solution, which is able to recognize unwanted content automatically. </p><p>
Recogmission, a developer of Picollator universal search engine for cross-content search, launched the first online service piFilter.com for automatic adult content detection based on the advanced pattern recognition technologies developed by company for its global web search engine. The novelty of the service is that the content evaluation is done without manual intervention, and based on content analysis solely. Therefore the solution is language-independent, and it works for users from the North America, Europe, China, Brasil, Russia, Japan, Middle East and all other regions of the World.</p><p>
Social networks, ISP, photo sharing sites or any small web site are able to connect to the service through the simple API and send the requests for processing on the basis of their own needs. The service offers multiple subscription options, while all of them are based on the natural idea &amp;#8211; the customer pays only for service usage like pay-as-you-use. Most of tariffs depend on the number of requests processed for the customer, so the company of any size can benefit from using it.</p><p>
Using the service allows web sites to reduce the costs from 5 to 100 times depending on the traffic. Service is of interest to any company with a public Internet resource or providing Internet access for fixed or mobile channels.</p>Recogmission, the start-up using the multimedia and text data for cross-content search in its Picollator.com search engine, announced the first release of the automatic visual content filter based on the object detection and pattern recognition technologies. <br />
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The task of processing and filtering the adult content is a nightmare for search engines, social networks and photo sharing sites. Most important issue is that adult content can affect the corporate policy, brand recognition in the market, and sometimes lead to lawsuits.  <br />
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According to the traditional approach, the adult content can be moderated manually or by keywords &amp;#8216;adult&amp;#8217;, &amp;#8216;sex&amp;#8217;, and other related tags. One can analyze the text content much easier in contrast to pure images. However, the user-generated content often does not contain appropriate keywords. Manual operations are too much resource and time consuming. In addition, the quality of content filtering depends on the attention and subjective evaluation by the content managers. <br />
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The text-based method to power the &amp;#8216;safe search&amp;#8217; mode used by search engines can reduce the manual processing. However, it is not a smart criterion for filtering. Users describes the pictures at the websites using adult-related words, therefore the textual content depends on the descriptions made by the users. Indeed, people do not describe the photos accurately. According to Recogmission&amp;#8217;s estimations, more than 30 percent of text descriptions and tags do not match the image content. In addition, the text-based approach often leads to serious mistakes that may have the negative impact. For instance, a website provides the information about the solution that helps to protect other services and users from the pornography. As a result, text-based filters can blacklist the website because its page contains the adult keywords. <br />
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Recogmission technology implemented on the basis of Picollator.com algorithms is going to change the traditional approach to the content filtering. Picollator content filter understands the images and recognizes the adult content in the pictures without text descriptions. The porn images or sites containing such content can be blocked for users automatically. Its engine can be integrated into any online or mobile service to detect the adult images, filter search results or generate alerts.<br />
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Picollator filter automates most tasks in the moderation process, reducing costs on the manual operations of the content managers, improving service recognition in the public environment and protecting the business against content-related claims. The solution is of interest for any company to improve multimedia content moderation. It also can protect users from the adult content appeared in e-mails, search results or on the website. <br />
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</p><p>For more information on this press release visit: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm">http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm</a></p></div><h2>Media Relations Contact</h2><p>Adrian Moxley<br />Sales Director<br />Recogmission LLC<br />Telephone: +44 (0) 7788 750717 <br />Email: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/contact/24919">Click to Email Adrian Moxley</a><br />Web: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.recogmission.com">http://www.recogmission.com</a><br /></div><div><p><img src="https://cts.releasewire.com/v/?sid=24919&amp;s=f&amp;v=f" width="1" height="1" alt=""><span></span></p></div>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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