Adding a set of ears to cloud computing.

Imagine Research announces MediaMined™, the world’s first sound object recognition web service. MediaMined identifies and labels sounds, making media files searchable and adding a set of ears to cloud computing.

This patent-pending technology allows companies to index their media based on the actual acoustic content - generating intelligent metadata and unique sound search signatures. This enables intelligent navigation with media files, improved search, discovery, and enables software and mobile devices workflows to finally hear their acoustic environment and input sounds.

Humans have an amazing ability to identify sounds. Within a fraction of a second, we can identify countless sound concepts: heavy metal music, a baby cry, James Earl Jones, a gun shot, or a dog bark. Using a proprietary, patent-pending audio signal processing and machine learning platform, along with massive datasets, Imagine Research allows computers to index, understand, and search sound.

Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive, explains “Audio and video are some of the least discoverable assets on the Internet. If someone has not tagged the materials with the right keywords, they are likely to be lost. The Internet Archive is looking forward to using the automatic categorization technology of Imagine Research to help bring hundreds of thousands of audio and video files to a larger audience.”

MediaMined is in private beta with some of the world’s leading media companies, including music licensing, media creation and production, multimedia search, and digital asset management firms. Over system has analyzed nearly 2,000,000 unique media files – ranging from historical speeches to television sound tracks and sound effects.

Imagine Research, Inc is an intelligent audio technology company based in San Francisco.
Contact info at imagine-research.com for additional information.