Visual Engines develops technologies and software products based on automatic visual analysis, searching, and recognition. Products and services offered by Visual Engines rely on two in house developed technologies: VeMIR (Visuale Engines Mobile Image Recognition), and VePAIR (Visual Engines Photo Archive Image Retrieval). Both solutions benefit from indexing strategies that are able to deal with
very large amount of images (on the order of hundred millions) with very limited hardware, which makes it possible to serve visual queries with sub-second response time with limited budget. Applications that can be realized using Visual Engines tools, range from Smart Access to Cultural Heritage to Smart Tourism, from Visual Archives Management to Copyright Infringement Detection, from Smart Shopping to Smart Ticketing. Visual Engines was founded by researchers of the Information Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI) of the National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, and by the Inera Srl Company. Visual Engines is now in line to be recognized as a CNR Spin-off.
