Posts Tagged ‘image recognition’

Friday, March 6th, 2009

PicScout at the Digital Innovation Summit in Berlin March 2009

Offir speaking at the Digital Innovators Summit, Berlin, March 2009I just came back from the Digital Innovation Summit in Berlin organized by VDZ where PicScout was invited to speak about its leading image tracking service as part of the Search and Content Session .

VDZ is a German organization of 400 publishers together producing more than 3,000 titles. The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute also sponsored the event and helped scout out innovative Israeli companies in the digital media and software space.

The summit hosted young and innovative companies from Israel and USA among of them were companies like Kaltura, Clicktale, Tvinchi, Dapper and PicScout which showecased their company and solutions for the digital media market.

I was amazed to see how the traditional print industry is seeking for help and innovation in order to leverage their brand into the digital world. We were sharing how their evolution to online from print was similar to the evolution stock agencies had moving from 35mm to e-commerce websites.

Next month I will speak at the American Bar Association’s Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference which will discuss how emerging technologies, like the PicScout’s ImageTracker, can solve problems relating to “orphan works”.

Offir Gutelzon

(Picture from Raphael Mizrahi’s Facebook Album)

Monday, February 16th, 2009

PicScout’s Offir Gutelzon Promoted to CEO

Offir Offir Gutelzon was appointed to be PicScout’s CEO. Gutelzon is a co-founder of PicScout and in his previous position as General Manager led the company’s development and implementation of the leading image recognition solution Image Tracker ™.

After the announcement was made, Gutelzon commented, ”I look forward to this challenge and am confident in our team’s abilities to continue to build innovative solutions. We will be using our technology platform to enhance our Software as a Service (SaaS) offering and create new applications and tools for our customers and partners to help them solve their copyright issues. I want to thank PicScout’s co-founder, Eyal Gura, who as founding CEO was instrumental to PicScout’s success from initial vision to market leadership.”

”Six years after its founding, PicScout is a profitable market leader with a unique and scalable image recognition technology and most importantly, a strong team with entrepreneurial culture” says Eyal Gura , PicScout co-Founder and chairman of the board. “The Board of Directors congratulates Offir and has confidence in Offir’s ability to take the company to even higher levels”

As General Manager and co-founder of PicScout, Offir led all product management and R&D activities. Prior to PicScout, Offir worked with several start-up companies and was involved in the vision and creation of various software and hardware solutions. One of the start-ups was Tundo Telecommunications where Offir held product marketing and project management positions. Offir served in a key technology unit of the Israel Defense Force and is a graduate of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program of IDC Herzliya.

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

PicScout Announces Their First New Customer for 2009

NordicPhotos, one of the largest photo agencies in the Nordics

We are happy to announce our first new customer for 2009, NordicPhotos of Stockholm, Sweden. NordicPhotos is an online photo agency that sells rights based photography from the Nordic countries: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

In order to protect their digital images, the group chose to use PicScout’s Image Tracker ™ Solution, the leading solution for image tracking and monitoring images in various media.

PicScout is currently responsible for detecting over 90% of all online image infringements detection worldwide and is active in a growing list of territories all over the globe. Image Tracker ™ technology monitors commercial internet sites to report back our clients’ data analytics about their images.

Arnaldur Gauti Johnson, Managing Director of NordicPhotos, stated, “PicScout has a wonderful technology for stock image collections like ours, and we appreciate how much time and effort we save by receiving the Image Tracker reports”. Offir Gutelzon, CEO of PicScout, added,” We are happy to add NordicPhotos, one of the largest stock photography groups in the Nordic countries, to our family of satisfied customers. We have recently added several new features to our technology and solutions to provide customers such as NordicPhotos with tools to increase their revenues and their ability to protect their images.”