Barcelona, 23 March 2004 - VideoIngest, a high-performance digital video cataloguer based on the state-of-the-art computer vision technology of Visual Century, will be in use during the Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004. VideoIngest, which is embedded into the Digition system developed by the Corporació Catalana de Ràdio I Televisió (CCRTV), will capture, automatically analyze and catalog the audiovisual content generated throughout the event, a festive journey focusing on cultural diversity, sustainable development and conditions for peace that will take place in Barcelona between May and September 2004.

The Digition project is a result of the recently signed contract between Barcelona Forum 2004 and the CCRTV. Under this agreement, all audiovisual contents generated during the Forum will be digitally managed and archived using the Digition system, which incorporates several VideoIngest units to carry out the ingest process. It is estimated that the Forum will approximately use 2.000 archive hours out of the 100.000 that the archive offers. The Digition solution is already in place at Televisió de Catalunya, the news channel 3/24, the National Film Archive and the Catalonia Parliament.

About Visual Century

Visual Century is a technology company created in 2001 by a group of entrepreneurs with audiovisual and multimedia research backgrounds. Visual Century develops software products to index, analyze, access and publish digital video, audio and images in asset management applications that include archiving, production, retrieval, navigation and broadcast of rich media content. The Visual Century team is made up of highly qualified professionals that share the quality, technology and innovation objectives of the company. Visual Century products stand out because of their innovative vision of rich media content, and they are designed to facilitate the use, management and exploitation of video, audio and image content.