LTU technologies is planning to make its products available as a hosted system. LTU engine will be accessible on a subscription or a per query basis, making the integration of our technology easier than ever.

Based on this platform, LTU will also offer innovative solutions to some of the most important problems of the online media world, such as copyright enforcement or content moderation.
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The LTU registry project is the one that will give you access to all the power of our multimedia search and control technologies through the cloud, as well as our new features, on our hosted services.

Many new functionalities for this system will be announced until the release date, stay tuned!

LTU registry will be released in December 2008 in private beta mode. LTU registry will open to the public early 2009. Please contact us for more information.

LTU engine is the core of all of our applications: it is the platform upon which our products and our customers solutions are built.

LTU engine is a software platform designed to implement a wide variety of image and video applications in a wide range of different user, hardware and software environments. ………………………………………………………………………………………..

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Compatible with any data structure - static, dynamic, structured, unstructured,…

Complementary with existing text-based search and content management solutions

Can be integrated with API enabled software via HTTP

Server, system executables or dynamic library packaging

SSL protocol

High availability architecture

Linux and Windows

LTU Image-Filter is a ground-breaking image-based software that can automatically analyze the content of images and video streams.

This enables companies and organizations to perform :

• Porn filtering / reliable filtering of objectionable visual content (e.g. X-rated)
• Protection of sensitive visual assets
• Customized automation of content monitoring processes

Image-Filterhas been designed for :

• OEM/VAR integration with content filtering solutions & e-mail management software solutions for businesses and ISPs.
• Direct online content monitoring for government and education organizations, and custom email management systems.

Features

• Real-time image analysis and indexing
  System users can filter content in real-time with LTU’s Image-Filter. First, the system analyzes an image or video dataflow, based on its visual features (shape, color, texture, etc). This dataflow is then translated into a digital signature (DNA), which is used to identify a variety of visual categories that must be monitored for protection purposes (i.e. porn filtering / adult content or sensitive corporate documents).
• Severity Cursor
  System administrators can define customized acceptance thresholds for the filtering system.
• Score computation
  Image-Filter returns a customized score and/or alert for each image, allowing an administrator to take action accordingly (block, quarantine, deliver, etc).
• Blacklist / White list customization System administrators can modify image blacklists and white lists in order to block or grant access to particular images for certain users.

Architecture

• Scalability; compliant with high availability clustered architecture.
• Computation cache (for large volumes of images).
• Parallelization on multiprocessors architecture.
• Flexible architecture allows for light software updates.

System requirements

Server: Image-Filter is a server-side software optimized for high volumes and scalability.

• Intel based processors (1 GHz Pentium or better).
• RAM: 256 MB per processor (minimum).
• Current OS: Linux (RedHat 7.1 or higher, SuSe 7

Client-side Platform: Client side platforms are unrestricted and currently include Windows (XP, 2000 & NT 4.0), AIX (4.2.1 or higher), and SUN Solaris 8 or higher.
Compatible mail platforms are Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and SendMail.

Integration

• Standard API & SDK (Java, Perl, C/C++, PHP).
• Easy integration (HTTP/XML).
• Complementary with existing filtering systems (text, URL, mail).
• Open API allows remote administration via HTT

Supported content and visual categories

• Over 20 supported formats, including jpeg, gif, bmp, psd, etc.
• Color photography, cartoons, clip art, buttons, banners.
• Several recognition categories are currently available.( Examples: Pornography, Cartoons, Website graphics, Technical drawings)
• Expansion of existing recognition categories and development of new categories are customizable on demand.

References

“The tests that we have conducted show that LTU filtering solution can really bring an added-value to an integrated solution as the one we intend to develop in the context of the NetProtect project.”
NetProtect Report - a European Prototype of Internet Access Filtering.
Download the Report (PDF)

“The Software Image-Filter of LTU was tested with a variety of different test data comprising adult image content as well as “harmless” content such as images of company logos, people, coin collections etc. The software produced good results.”
JOANNEUM RESEARCH - the largest independent R&D institution in Austria.

More about porn filtering

Filtering images using text is rarely effective. For instance, an image entitled “Image001.gif” or “teddybear.jpg” provides no information about the content of the image. Thus, to filter an image effectively, one must view the actual content.

As such, the founders of LTU, have spent over seven years at MIT, Oxford and INRIA designing a computer software that automatically (and quickly) sees and analyzes the content of images to provide information regarding its “appropriateness”. Providing the world access to this revolutionary technology is precisely the mission of our company.

Image-Filter is the image recognition and filtering system that has been designed, developed and commercialized by LTU.

Key applications include filtering of harmful content on the internet (e.g. personal pages, user-generated content, auction sites, search engines) or on telcos devices (MMS) and the monitoring of email attachments (non business-related content, sensitive proprietary content).

Generally speaking, LTU software has been designed to fit smoothly into existing monitoring tools. Image-Filter is capable of analyzing visual content in any format (gif, jpg, bmp, mpg, avi…), and originating from any source (a web page, email attachment, hard disk, video stream, scanner, etc).

Image-Filter visual thesaurus can be extended to include new categories according to the client’s needs. Other key functionalities include Black and White lists: the administrator can add images to black and white lists to block or grant access to particular images (e.g. proprietary content, sensitive content).

Acceptance levels

Within 0.6 second (average CPU time) of inputting an image into the system, Image-Filter outputs a score for the submitted image. In the particular case of pornography (one of Image-FilterTM’s core filtering features), a score of “0” corresponds to a “totally harmless image” and a score of “100” corresponds to “highly pornographic content”. This score is generally reported to a human administrator who uses the analysis to determine how his/her organization will respond to the content (e.g. the administrator may only want to see the images which score higher than “50”).

Computer Forensics - With ever increasing volumes of digital image and video data, how do you quickly find the visual evidence that is relevant to your investigation? LTU finder enables advanced image and video search in computer forensic investigations using Guidance Software’s EnCase® .  Hash sets only identify exact matches of images and videos. LTU finder analyzes the visual features in the image or video to assess its actual visual content.

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With LTU finder you can: Identify duplicate and modified versions of images,   Identify scanned documents and screenshots,   Extract keyframes of video files to quickly summarize content,   Identify images, videos and folders which may contain pornography, and   Identify images with faces

LTU finder is available for EnCase Forensic or EnCase Enterprise.
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IMAGE MATCHING

LTU finder uses LTU “image DNA” to identify duplicate and modified images. Instead of using a hash code, which will only identify exact matches, the image DNA will identify matches as well as modified versions of an image. Using image DNA, LTU finder will find matches to images that have undergone common manipulations such as resizing, color changes, file type changes, the addition of text or slight crops and rotations.

LTU finder can search for image matches from a set of local reference images, or from a dataset generated by another LTU finder user or by LTU engine.

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IMAGE AND VIDEO CLASSIFICATION

LTU finder can classify some of the images and videos found within EnCase. For example, LTU finder highlights those folders which contain pornography, images of scanned documents, and images which contain faces.

This technology works by comparing images against an image profile which defines a category of images. For example, LTU’s pornography profile has been trained on more than 30K pornographic images.

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ARCHITECTURE

LTU finder is comprised of an EnPack and a license-protected library that are installed on your EnCase investigation machine.

System Requirements

• EnCase Forensic or EnCase Enterprise versions 6.10.2 or later
• 32 bit machine
• Windows XP or Vista
• Must meet system requirements for running EnCase

Supported Image Types

AVS, BMP, DCX, FITS, GIF, ICO, JP2, JPEG, MTV, PCD, PCX, PICT, PIX, PNG, PSD, SUN, SCT, RLE, SGI, TGA, TIFF, VICAR, VIFF, XCF, WBMP

LTU Image-Seeker is a comprehensive search and retrieval software for visual assets

Image-Seeker boasts:

• Fully configurable browser-based interface
• Advanced visual and text search
• Highly scalable server-side software architecture

Click for live visual search demo. For Internet Explorer or Netscape 6

Why Image-Seeker ?

Image-SeekerTM provides a faster, more efficient way to search through large volumes of visual data.

Digital content has become a vital asset. The management and retrieval of visual content has emerged as a strategic necessity. Current text-based technologies have proven inadequate when dealing with visual content.

Image-Seeker delivers the most advanced visual content retrieval capabilities to corporations and government agencies.

This full software solution simplifies the search and matching processes at all levels of the organization. Image-Seeker has been designed for:

• Direct implementation for organizations with large volumes of strategic visual data.
• Integration with knowledge management and media asset management software.

The analysis engine is accessible from a fully configurable browser-based interface or from a flexible API for integration into an existing system.

Entreprise capabilities

Image-Seeker provides a faster, more efficient way to search through large volumes of visual data. Key features include:

Content Search

• Combined visual & text-based search
• Find exact and similar images
• Upload external images for search
• Advanced search: color/shape
• Client specific “DNA” customization
• Partial image search (cropping)
• Multiple image search reportings
• XML-based data model
• Customized XML output

“My Seeker” Area

• Manage personal settings
• View search history
• Save searches and images

Content Administration

• Flexible API for content input
• Easy enrollment of image directories
• Video enrollment capabilities
• User-friendly annotation interface
• Web interface fully configurable
• Export of database content

System Administration

• Advanced access rights management
• Secure image transmission
• Application monitoring
• Clustered architecture

Autoscan (add-on)

• Submit multiple files/folders
• Batch processing
• Server-side reports
• Detects and analyses hidden files (false extensions)

Architecture

• Server-side software scaling with large image databases.
• Parallel multiprocessor architecture and compliant with high availability clustered architecture.
• Flexible architecture allows for light software updates
• Data can be stored either on disk or on Oracle (for increased security and easier backup processes).

System requirements

Server: Image-Seeker is a server-side software optimized for high volumes and scalability. Cluster architecture is recommended for large volumes.

• Intel based processors (1 GHz Pentium or better).
• RAM: 512 MB per processor (minimum).
• Current OS: Linux RedHat 8.0 or higher, Red Hat ES, Sun Solaris 9, Fedora Core 1

Client-side platform: Browser interfaces (Internet Explorer 5+, Netscape 6+ and others)

Database: Oracle 8i or higher, PostGreSql 7.2 for low-scale implementations.

Integration

• Compatible with any data structure (static or dynamic, structured or unstructured).
• Standard API & SDK (Java, Perl, C/C++, PHP).
• Easy integration (HTTP/XML).
• Complementary with existing text-based and content management solutions.

Supported content

• Image formats: Over 20 image formats, including jpeg, gif, bmp, png, psd, etc.
• Content types: Color / black & white - Photographs, designs, logos, products
• Video (add-on module): Advanced key-frame technology to extract, store and search video content
• Biometrics (custom add-on): Face detection and similarity engine.

Internet surveillance

When Image-Seeker is used in conjunction with a Web “crawler” (or “spider”), it allows for surveillance of images on the Internet, in particular for applications such as:

• Intelligence and monitoring of published/exchanged images
• Counterfeit monitoring and unauthorized Sales
• Visual trademark and copyright protection
• Brand abuse tracking
• Market/Competitive intelligence

LTU Technologies, the global leader in image search and recognition solutions, released LTU Image-Seeker for EnCase® (ISE), an integration enhancing image analysis capabilities for the market-leading computer forensics tool used by law enforcement and government investigators. Delivered as a plug-in for the industry-standard Guidance Software EnCase® platform, ISE boosts investigators ability to quickly analyze and index images while in the field and away from the lab. Ultimately, even first responders to an investigation site can immediately determine whether a computer has been used to facilitate a crime.

LTU works with law enforcement customers around the world to develop technical solutions that address the daily challenges facing forensic examiners and first responders. In this case, by enabling the immediate analysis of images seized from suspects? computers, LTU Image-Seeker for EnCase provides a way to eliminate the long backlogs in today’s computer forensic labs currently creating multi-month delays in case resolution.

Image-Seeker for EnCase (ISE), one of LTU’s powerful field & lab triage tools, determines in real time whether a computer has been used to facilitate a crime, unobtrusively extracting conclusive evidence on-site. ISE enables investigators to more quickly uncover previously unknown photographs associated with a recent crime or current case in progress. For investigators, identifying known images on a suspect’s hard drive is the most urgent task as it helps to reveal unknown images that may represent evidence of a new crime. ISE speeds the image sorting process, enabling field officers to quickly identify, and compare known seized images; while enabling the secure sharing of these materials by state, local, federal and even international law enforcement authorities.

ISE is based on a core LTU technology that indexes the pixels of an image to create a digital signature or “image DNA” that describes the key visual features of each image. This approach has proven to be more effective than the use of keyword tags and binary file identifiers alone.

Used as a standard within enforcement circles, LTU image DNA enables investigators from local, national and international agencies to compare current case data with profiles of images stored among the various agencies centralized databases - all without sharing actual images.

Agents working in the field need not be connected to a central database to compare seized images. The integrated Image-Seeker for EnCase tool provides fully portable image analysis, storage, and sharing capabilities in an easy to use interface helping law enforcement to extend the use of their existing investment in EnCase® software.

LTU Image-Seeker™ for EnCase is anticipated to be a highly valued tool investigation of various types; including intelligence and the investigation of counterfeiting crimes. ISE will help investigators in all circumstances when the need exists to compare field-analyzed materials with those held by a centralized agency, without compromising the security of the centralized data.

More details on LTU Image-Seeker.

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Responder Field Edition was designed to provide law enforcement and computer intrusion investigators with the most powerful Live Windows Memory preservation and analysis capabilities.

Memory Analytics & Parsing

Responder FE provides the most thorough and comprehensive memory analysis capability in the industry. Responder performs all physical to virtual address mappings, recreates the object manager, exposes all objects, and enables investigators to perform a complete and comprehensive computer investigation.

Automated Malware Analysis and Reporting

Responder FE provides the ability to automatically analyze suspicious binaries found during the physical memory analytics. These suspicious files are extracted out of the physical memory file, disassembled, and then the Malware Analysis Plug-in will scan the functions, sub-routines, strings, and symbols to identify and report on suspicious capabilities and behaviors.

Responder FE Memory Analytics provide the following:

• Running processes
• Open files
• Passwords in clear text
• Unencrypted data
• Instant messages
• Installed network devices
• Keyboard monitors
• Rootkits & Trojans
• Network socket information
• Registry info

Preservation of Live Windows Memory (RAM)

HBGary Fastdump software utility is a free download to enable investigators and security analysts to easily "freeze the live memory" on workstations and servers. HBGary Fastdump is software that creates a block by block dump of physical memory on live Windows Operating systems.

Responder Pro is the industry’s first live memory and runtime analysis platform for Windows operating systems. Responder Pro integrates the most powerful physical memory and reverse engineering capabilities into one product suite providing information assurance analysts, computer emergency response teams, and computer crime investigators with the critical capabilities to collect, analyze, diagnose and report on runtime data contained in physical memory.

Disk and signature based detection tools are no match against malicious code using the latest anti-forensics, anti-detection, and anti-debugging techniques. It’s no wonder that 80% of new malware is missed by Antivirus. Responder Pro provides analysts and investigators with unprecedented visibility into memory and runtime state information to detect these resistant binaries because software (good or bad) cannot execute without being present in live memory.

With a mouse click, unknown or suspicious binaries detected by Responder can be analyzed, disassembled and debugged to determine if they are malicious and to gain understanding of their capabilities and behaviors.

HBGary Responder supports proactive security assessments, live computer incident response, forensic investigations, and malware analysis.

Responder Pro Memory Analytics provide the following:

• Running processes
• Open files
• Passwords in clear text
• Unencrypted data
• Instant messages
• Installed network devices
• Keyboard monitors
• Rootkits & Trojans
• Network socket information
• Registry info

Binary and Runtime Forensic Capabilities: Responder Pro integrates dynamic runtime tracing with data flow and static code analysis. Captured test data is recorded in a team-member shared database for further analysis with automated scripts and interactive graphing.

• Static Disassembly of Binaries
• Automated Malware Analysis & Reporting
• Advanced Graphing and Visualization

Preservation of Live Windows Memory (RAM)

HBGary Fastdump software utility is a free download to enable investigators and security analysts to easily "freeze the live memory" on workstations and servers. HBGary Fastdump is software that creates a block by block dump of physical memory on live Windows Operating systems.

Features:

• Decrypting HTTPS network packets existed within the same domain.
• This system pretends as a gateway to obtain public keys (Decryption/Encryption keys) by cheating when the data is transferred via Internet in order to decrypt the information.
• Able to cooperate with SSL server and obtain its public keys in order to decrypt all data related to this SSL server.
• The primary auditing feature is able to be integrated with E-Detective System and its database, in order to exchange/decode/analyze the data.
• Gmail and bank online transactions are not secured anymore.

Operating Manual: Https Set

The decrypted content: