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Wednesday, November 17, 2004
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Espion™ Visual Search technology lets you search for images with similar colors, themes and compositions in online image collections.
Hemera®, a world leader in wholly owned, royalty-free digital image content, today announced the introduction of visual search capabilities on Hemera Image Express™ and AbleStock.com®. Visual Search allows users to find images with similar colors, themes and compositions with just one click.
"The visual search element offers our customers a brand new way to explore image collections creatively," said Kim Dixon, CEO and president of Hemera. "Sometimes it's easier to search for visual similarities than by keywords alone, and we know our customers will appreciate this complement to traditional search methods."
When reviewing the results of an initial keyword search, users can now look for visually similar images by clicking the Visual Search button on the Search Result page. Users have the option to use the visual search feature with or without entering keywords.
The new search engines on Hemera Image Express and AbleStock have been enhanced by technology provided by Idee Inc. The company's flagship product, Espion™ Visual Search, is a powerful and innovative visual search technology that analyzes the pixels in each image and creates a searchable index of colors, patterns and compositions in online image collections.
"Hemera is renowned for its outstanding line of visual content products, and we are proud of their adoption of Espion Visual Search technology," said Leila Boujnane, Chief Executive Officer of Idee Inc.
Hemera Image Express offers more than 500,000 images in low- and medium-resolution at www.imageexpress.com. AbleStock offers close to 80,000 high-resolution images via subscriptions and single-image downloads at www.ablestock.com.
About Hemera
Hemera, founded in 1997, is privately held and owns one of the world's largest royalty-free image collections. Their images are available for download at www.hemera.com, www.imageexpress.com and www.ablestock.com, or can be purchased on CD/DVD through retailers and republishers worldwide.
