IMINT Image Intelligence AB
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| Public | |
| Industry | Software and Aerospace |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Uppsala, Sweden |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
Andreas Lifvendahl (CEO) Gösta Franzen (Chairman) |
| Products | Software |
| Website | www.vidhance.com |
Image Intelligence - IMINT AB is a software company in the Image analysis domain based in Sweden.
History
The company was founded in 2007 by Jakob Sandström (CTO) and Harald Klomp (CEO). In 2008 the private investment company Professionell Ägarstyrning i Sverige AB[1] and Uppsala University holding company Uppsala Universitets Utvecklings AB[2] invested in the company. The company is based in Uppsala, Sweden, part of the Stockholm-Uppsala software technology corridor, a prominent software cluster.[3]
Imint is a software company within the field of video analytics, optimizations and enhancements. The collective, trade mark for its algorithms package is Vidhance. From its foundation, Imint focused on real-time video enhancement in defense-, aeronautical and industrial applications.
On 6 April 2009, Imint was selected by Stockholm Innovation & Growth (STING) as one of the 26 hottest young technology companies in Sweden.[4]
In 2010, the Swedish government venture capital firm Almi Invest[5] joined as minority owners.
In 2012, Imint changed management, appointing Andreas Lifvendahl as CEO and Simon Mika as CTO. In addition to maintaining its legacy business, the new management ventured into the mobile consumer segment, re-purposing the Vidhance technology for mobile platforms. In 2014, Vidhance Mobile was launched, initially featuring smartphone video stabilization.[6] On 8 October 2014 Imint was awarded the Young Bulls Award in a ceremony in Barcelona, Spain.[7]
Company and Technology
IMINT - Image Intelligence AB specializes in computer vision software for real-time video optimizations and enhancements, including video stabilization with own patented methods based on motion analysis.Traditional markets has been industrial and defense systems, such as Unmanned aerial systems, UAS, and Air Traffic Control, ATC. Imint is the developer and proprietor of the Vidhance [8] software algorithms technology, consisting of:
- Real time video enhancement
- Video Stabilization
- Automatic Image Mosaicking from Video
- Object Tracking and Sizing
- Adaptive Regional Video Contrast Enhancement
The technology adapted for mobile consumer video, Vidhance Mobile, adds additional components:
- Live Video Autozoom
- On-the-fly Video Editing and Auto-cut
- Automatized Video Production and live filming collaboration support[9]
Products
The legacy product is Ihvert, a standalone PC software product for rapid video analysis and intelligence gathering.
Most defense- and industrial customers today instead use the integration product Vidview, and the accompanying Vidview SDK, for integrating components of Vidhance into a host platform.
Similarly, Imint provides SDK's for its Vidhance Mobile products, to support integration onto mobile platforms or apps.
References
- ↑ Professionell Ägarstyrning i Sverige AB http://www.paab.se
- ↑ Uppsala Universitets Utveckling AB http://www.uuab.uu.se
- ↑ Rung, Sven; Leimback, Timo. "EU Software Cluster Benchmark 2013". www.softwareclusterbenchmark.eu. Fraunhofer ISI. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ "26 entreprenörer möter kapitalet i Kista". Ny Teknik.
- ↑ "Almi Invest Portfolio Companies". Almi Invest.
- ↑ Lardinois, Frederic. "Imint Wants To Bring Real-Time Video Stabilization To Android". techcrunch.com. Techcrunch. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ Fagerfjäll, Göte. "Sr Editor". www.elinor.se. Elektronik i Norden. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ "TechWorld article on Vidhance". TechWorld.
- ↑ Lardinois, Frederic. "Editor". Techcrunch.com. Techcrunch. Retrieved 7 August 2015.