Viewdle, the facial recognition-oriented video search company, today announced that it has partnered with KIT Capital, a Dubai-based digital media investment group which recently took a strategic investment position in corporate IPTV enablement company ROO Group.

KIT Capital has made an investment in Viewdle and as part of this investment, ROO CEO and KIT Capital managing director, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, has joined Viewdle’s board of directors.

Viewdle is a multi-modal video search platform that combines technology from video, audio and text to deliver a semantically-accurate video search experience. The unique Viewdle Engine looks inside every frame to identify and deliver factual, contextually-relevant results at a level of granularity not possible with existing video search tools, most notably through pioneering facial-recognition technology.

Since Viewdle’s launch as a TechCrunch40 presenter in September 2007, the company has expanded beyond white-label offerings to consumer-facing Name Widget and Election Coverage Tracker. Viewdle will soon release a business-to-business service offering, additional widgets, and ultimately, personal media and consumer video search destination site.

Viewdle was recently named the 2008 Start-Up of the Year in Europe by the Plugg Conference, and was a “Best Technology Innovation/Achievement” Crunchies 2007 Award finalist. Viewdle technology is currently used by Reuters.

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