The Associated Press announced today the launch of a unique artificial intelligence-powered search experience on AP Newsroom, the global news agency’s single platform for multimedia content. The platform also now offers e-commerce capabilities, in addition to serving AP’s member news organizations and customers. AI-powered search makes it easier for users to find the best photos and videos that meet their search criteria. Rather than a traditional metadata search, the tool understands descriptive language and produces search results based on the description a user provides. AI-powered search ..read more

The Associated Press announced today the launch of a unique artificial intelligence-powered search experience on AP Newsroom, the global news agency’s single platform for multimedia content. The platform also now offers e-commerce capabilities, in addition to serving AP’s member news organizations and customers. AI-powered search makes it easier for users to find the best photos and videos that meet their search criteria. Rather than a traditional metadata search, the tool understands descriptive language and produces search results based on the description a user provides. AI-powered search ..read more

Braintree, MA (May 1, 2023) – A major not-for-profit children’s medical center in the northeastern US has selected Merlin as its HIPAA-compliant Digital Asset Management solution. The organization is wholly dedicated to children, offering several dozen pediatric specialties at multiple locations in multiple states and through telehealth. Its experts and community leaders are committed to breakthrough research and innovative partnerships, which have won numerous awards, including being Magnet recognized, which fewer than 10 percent of hospitals achieve. With no previous legacy DAM, this organiz ..read more

Braintree, MA (Apr. 19, 2023) – A private university based in New Jersey has selected a Merlin hosted DAM solution from MerlinOne to replace their end-of-life legacy DAM. Located along New Jersey’s coastline, the school has a rich history and exceptional reputation as a student-centered, affordable private university. The school decided to go with a Merlin DAM solution with a total of 13 TB of storage and are looking forward to potentially moving forward with MerlinOne’s IMPACT AI and Visual Simulairty AI if the organization gets approval. Merlin provides users with a powerful, flexible, and i ..read more

There has been little to no research done on ways of improving visual editing, but there has been a lot of research in other endeavors where humans have strived for excellence, and perhaps some of it transfers here? It might even provide insights about how and why AI visual tools can improve human performance. An individual sport where there has been a lot of rigorous research is competitive running, and it may serve as a proxy for ways of improving human performance. Running performance tends to occur in two areas: Body mechanics getting better and better The runner’s brain gets more able to ..read more

Braintree, MA (Mar. 1, 2023) –  A digital marketing solution provider to businesses in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand has selected the Merlin Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution from MerlinOne, Inc. This provider helps businesses find, convert, and keep customers with marketing automation, channel campaign management, marketing dashboard and insights, plus expert-led services. The organization purchased a Merlin SaaS service that includes NOMAD Visual Search AI for images and videos. They will use Merlin to manage campaign creation workflows for their customers ..read more

Braintree, MA (Feb. 14, 2023) – A massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) company has selected a Merlin Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution to manage its millions of critical marketing images and illustrations. Responsible for some of the most epic fantasy MMORPGs, the gaming giant will deploy Merlin on-premises to replace its aging DAM, which had become unscalable. Extremely security conscious, this company selected an on-premises Merlin with 2N redundancy, and NOMAD Visual Search, Visual Similarity AI, and Impact AI as services. Merlin provides users with a powerful, fle ..read more

Northern California Municipal Utilities District Selects Merlin DAM Braintree, MA (Feb. 14, 2023) – A municipal utilities district based in northern California, has selected Merlin to replace its current digital asset management (DAM) solution. The large organization provides high-quality drinking water for more than a million customers and their award-winning wastewater treatment protects the sensitive environment while serving nearly 750,000 customers. Merlin will not only replace their current DAM solution, but we will also import placeholder metadata records from their database of their ph ..read more

Braintree, MA (Feb. 11, 2023) – A nationally-recognized community college based in central Florida has selected Merlin for its first-ever digital asset management (DAM) solution. The community college was looking for a centralized solution to manage all their digital assets stored in network and cloud shares, desktops, etc. After experiencing MerlinOne’s innovative NOMAD AI Visual Search and testing NOMAD against their own images, they were convinced MerlinOne was a great fit. The college selected the Merlin Compliance high-security offering to meet their needs for security and FERPA complianc ..read more

In Part 1 we set the grounding for the art of visual editing, established the need to define goals, and set criteria for great visual objects we might want to use. The next step is locating candidate visual objects, and for that we need to Search. For the last 30 years we have found visual objects by searching for text matches in “metadata”, the descriptive text attached to visual objects that is typically entered by someone… if indeed it is entered at all. If you have a still image database with extensive human-generated metadata you may have done OK, if you have stills with sparse metadata ..read more