For those of you who had not the opportunity to come yesterday, here is a small description on what the ventures presented were about.

Imagine you viewed dozens of videos and would like to retrieve a specific moment of a specific video when one of the speaker said a special word or sentence.
Haven't you dreamt of this ?
Well this is what viewdle is about.

Based on face recognition and language indexing, they have managed to create a video indexer allowing to automatically index videos.
Considering the increasing number of rich content being produced, this project clearly opens tremendous perspectives.
The biggest challenges of this innovation is not face recognition but language issues. Only available in english right now, they work on creating a french version as well as german and other languages.
I would not be surprised to hear they get additionnal fundings to increase the pace of video processing.

I hope they will get a great support because that, to me, is one of the smartest service I have seen so far.

View their presentation (thanks to Mael for his excellent job!):