Autonomy’s suite of rich media products and modules represent the industry’s leading solution for rich media management, digital asset management, video archiving, broadcast/media monitoring, multicasting, copyright infringement detection, and video search.

VS Archive

VS Archive is a unique video archiving module that efficiently stores, categorizes, manages, retrieves, and distributes video within the enterprise. This addresses a range of rich media business operations, including those for marketing, sales, HR, production, and training. VS Archive enables companies to benefit from improved communication, better advertising and promotion, increased productivity, accelerated learning, and the security of knowing valuable corporate assets will be preserved for the future.

Using VS Archive, organizations can share and repurpose digital content either departmentally or enterprise-wide, removing the historical burden of finding content or sharing the content with multiple users. In addition, it automates the processing and categorizing of the original footage, eliminating altogether the time-consuming cataloging process.

VS Archive offers the following features:

• Simultaneous view and on-demand control of all sessions from one centralized interface
• Realtime status display of each logging session with automated alerts for error and event email notifications
• Creation and management of new events
• Timeline view of event durations
• Automatic, manual and schedule–only settings
• Automatic Categorization

By using VS Archive, customers can gain the following benefits:

• Enables rapid response to market-changing conditions through automated alerts
• Improves accuracy of content tagging for search and reuse
• Automatically produces what would take teams of administrators years to accomplish – an accurate, consistent and highly detailed tagging system

VS Broadcast Monitoring

VS Broadcast Monitoring is a next-generation technology to automatically monitor, analyze, and index live broadcast feeds in real time from digital, satellite and cable television, radio, and the Internet. Autonomy Virage additionally supports realtime operations by creating automatic hyperlinks to other relevant content and delivering it automatically to those who need it, wherever they are.

Autonomy Virage enables users from any organization to automatically monitor multiple broadcast streams to give instant visibility to breaking stories, to track competitors, and to monitor company news coverage in any format and language. Autonomy supports over 100 languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese, and can be easily configured to auto-detect the language of incoming feeds.

Autonomy Virage can scale across the largest projects. Scalability is a major challenge for other vendors in this type of environment. Being able to automatically index, process, and archive hundreds of live feeds and alerts when necessary is common practice for Autonomy Virage and a reason why this technology is being widely adopted in the most challenging environments.

VS Broadcast Monitoring offers the following features:

• Monitoring of an unlimited number of channels simultaneously without any detriment to performance
• Automatic analysis, encoding, and capture of content from live data streams
• Realtime, automatic alerts through SMS, email, and mobile phones.
• Multilingual translation of broadcasts to compare news in multiple languages
• 24×7 monitoring of advertising and press coverage
• Automatic indexing and encoding of live broadcasts with no need for manual tagging
• Instant retrieval of rich media assets with pinpoint accuracy

Multicasting

Autonomy Virage streamlines the process of making rich media content available through any distribution platform, be it IPTV, satellite, cable, terrestrial, web, or mobile. This benefits broadcasters by enhancing flexibility and reducing costs while enriching the viewer’s experience. Consumers are empowered to become their own virtual editors and effectively create their own TV channels matched to their specific habits and requirements. All the benefits of the core front-end and back-end functionalities are available, allowing editors and producers to manipulate, manage, and program their channels while also offering users an enhanced experience based on the suggested content that the profiling features can offer, irrespective of the platform of distribution.

Autonomy Virage offers the following features and benefits:

• Viewers are able to create their own interactive TV programs by slicing and dicing content. They can “pick and mix” clips as they please, eliminate material that is of no interest to them, and receive alerts to new content as it appears online.
• Automated operations dramatically reduces the number of person-hours required to convert raw video or television content into fully searchable, customizable and personalized internet television
• Automatically indexes and encodes content into the optimal format for your Internet broadcast requirements, with no need for manual tagging
• Produces unrivalled personalization, profiling and content creation by combining viewers’ explicit preferences and choices with implicit profiling operations
• Offers unprecedented granularity of understanding with its ability to cross-reference scripts, music and blogs with broadcast content
• Global language support increases market share

Video Search

Powered by IDOL, Autonomy Virage Video Search delivers powerful next-generation search capabilities. Along with traditional ways of searching video content (e.g. by channel, program or time), users can reach right inside video streams, navigate vast quantities of rich media content and search by a range of parameters including audio, scene, speaker, location, key frame, on-screen text, face, token and concept. In simple terms, Autonomy Virage is able to recognize content at a level of granularity that was unavailable until now. Viewers can skip to the precise sentence in a televised interview that covers a particular topic of interest, or select only those scenes within the video stream that are relevant and splice them together to create a new, personalized video. They can also identify and select only those news stories in a regular bulletin or those scenes in a film that are of real interest, and splice them into a single program.

Autonomy Virage offers the following features:

• Ability to search by concept, key frame, speaker, face, and many more
• Advanced speech technology which combines sound, context, and multiple language dictionaries to intelligently overcome variables such as language, dialect, and tone that can affect the comprehension of spoken content
• Advanced, concept-based functionality which enables the system to discern between homophones, homonyms, and other linguistic complexities that can lead to false positives with phonetic-only approaches
• Retrieval through the meaning and context of content
• Access through a single, intuitive, and personalized user interface
• Ability to search and cross-reference with over 1,000 file formats