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Espion Visual Search wins Canadian e–Content Award Best Innovative Application Category

TORONTO, CANADA. – March 24, 2004 – Idée Inc is proud to announce that Espion Visual Search has won the Canadian e–Content Award in the Best Innovative Application Category. The award was presented yesterday at the e–Content Award gala at the Holiday Inn on King Street in Toronto. The gala, part of the e–Content Institute's annual Information Highways Conference, was followed by a live auction in support of the Starlight Children's Foundation.

The Canadian e–Content Awards are sponsored by the e–Content Institute and were created to recognize and honour innovative development of electronic content products and services for use by Canadian organizations. The Judging Committee was made up of a panel of experts and professional users of electronic content.

Idée Inc is Canada's leading visual search company with a visual search application that allows users to search for images based on image similarity. Espion provides the capability to search quickly and intuitively through very large image collections for visually similar images. Espion uses sophisticated image analysis algorithms with respect to hundreds of image attributes including color, shape, texture, luminosity, complexity, objects, regions and many others.

"These products have been recognized for their quality, innovation, value, and importance to the Canadian market" commented Heather Wilson, chair of the 2004 Judging Committee.

"We're ecstatic and honoured that our visual search technology has won the Best Innovative Application Category for the 2004 Canadian e–Content Awards. We plan on developing more innovative products that will benefit the e–content community," stated Leila Boujnane, Chief Executive Officer at Idée.

The Canadian e–Content Awards recognize and honour electronic content products that demonstrate innovation in facilitating knowledge creation and e–business processes for the Canadian e–content community. These products support access to strategic, timely information, encourage knowledge sharing, enhance user productivity and contribute to competitive advantage. Award categories cover content and software products that facilitate the delivery of information in text, graphic, sound and/or video formats. Content may be accessible to multiple users via enterprise networks, intranets, public Web sites, portals, and mobile devices or via standalone terminals.

About Idée

Idée Inc. develops advanced image identification and visual search software. Read more...

About the e–Content Institute

The e–Content Institute is dedicated to advancing the interests of the Canadian e–content community –– developers and creators of e–content products and services and the professionals who buy, use and manage them. For more information on the e–Content Institute visit the website at www.econtentinstitute.org.

For more information contact:
Heather Wilson
Chair, Canadian e–Content Awards Judging Committee
hwilson@tpl.toronto.on.ca