Valossa nabs seed money for deep content video search


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Michelle Clancy

| 23 December 2015




Artificial intelligence (AI) and voice-powered deep content video search technology firm Valossa has clenched a $650,000 seed round with Butterfly Ventures and several Finnish angel investors.



The company’s flagship platform is a descriptive search engine, Valossa Search, for video, which enables natural, verbose and flexible querying for voice-controlled film services and entertainment platforms.

Designed for service and content providers, Valossa can reach down into their video content, identify it and make it searchable. Valossa’s technology is capable of analysing video streams in real-time to identify more than a thousand concepts (eg places and objects) from any video stream. This is claimed to enable automated scene descriptive metadata creation for content production, real-time video content discovery applications and contextual advertising.

Example queries understood by Valossa Search include: Sean Connery in red pants; sci-fi movies about space battles and laser guns; Clint Eastwood protecting the president; comedy in Hawaii; non-violent princess movies; and romantic comedy movies involving career issues and family.

Valossa Smart Search can also easily identify conditional and chained voice commands, such as, “find me epic history movies, and only the ones with large battles”.

New features are also in development to allow users to find the most recent topical movies, using queries such as “latest sci-fi movies involving time travel”.