Visesh Infotecnics Ltd announced this week a strategic alliance with Cyberworks Software Inc to market innovative image analysis technology to OEM’s for the detection of offensive imagery on computer and wireless networks. The new technology has recently been endorsed and licensed by industry giants, which firmly positions the technology as the industry leader and a probable defacto standard.

"Image Analyzer" detects offensive visual content on hard-drives, in digital data transmission or in real time downloads to servers, PC’s, PDA’s, mobile phones, iPOD’s or USB jump drives and other mass storage devices. Unlike other “safe surfing” technologies, it does not rely on lists of previously known offensive images, but rather, analyzes the actual images received from website, emails or file swaps to determine its content in real time. Inappropriate visual content is a source of concern to parents as well as within corporations where such content reduces productivity and exposes companies to sexual harassment claims. It is estimated that 2.5 billion emails per day contain pornographic content (8% of total emails) and that there are over 68 million porn search engine requests daily (25% of search engine requests).

Cyberworks is currently in talks with a range of mobile service providers, wireless PDA makers, managed email service providers, anti-virus companies and search engines to integrate Image Analyzer into their products. The technology is available for license on an OEM basis and can be simply integrated within an existing application or form the basis of a new product offering for IT security vendors.

Said Managing Director of Visesh Infotecnics Ltd. "the massive proliferation of pornography in the workplace and amongst youth is a major problem and a costly one in the Asian market. It reduces productivity in the workplace, encourages sexual harassment and exposes CEO's to serious legal liability and criminal proceedings. We see this technology being incorporated on to every corporate server, iPOD, GSM network and WiMax network across Asia"

“The alliance with Visesh is a significant achievement for Image Analyser, offering the company access to experienced and extensive business development resources in the key Asian market. Image Analyzer technology offers a clear value add to IT security vendors and the alliance with Visesh will now give us the ability to engage at the correct level and achieve the penetration of the Asian market which the company has targeted” commented Vivek Burhanpurkar, President of Cyberworks.