Advanced Imaging Magazine Announces Imaging Solutions of the Year Award Winners for 2004
Melville, NY (January 16, 2004) - Advanced Imaging magazine, a publication of Cygnus Business Media, has announced the results of its 2004 Imaging Solutions of the Year contest. The competition, held annually, asks developers, vendors, integrators, VARs, public relations firms and end-users to nominate sites whose solutions they feel merit special industry attention for their practical handling of digital imaging and image processing challenges. To that end, nominators sent in the imaging challenges they wished to submit, outlining the solutions to those challenges, the imaging tools used and the differences they made to the industry.
This year, four winners and four runners-up were chosen from the many impressive entries received, while a ninth nominee was chosen as the industry's Imagers of the Year. Those chosen will be honored in the January 2004 edition of Advanced Imaging. Among the recipients is French software developer REALVIZ, whose application, Stitcher was chosen as one of this year's winners. This award is well deserved, as the solution will benefit many throughout the electronic imaging industry.
"We are delighted to receive this award from Advanced Imaging," said Dominique Pouliquen, REALVIZ CEO. "For our developers who have worked long and hard, and for the REALVIZ team as a whole, it's great to have the validation of such a publication, recognised for it's high-level of reporting on technological developments within the imaging industry. With the launch of Stitcher 4.0 this month, this award could not have come at a better time."
"We at Advanced Imaging are extremely pleased to be handing out awards to such deserving solutions providers," said Len Yencharis, AI's Editor-in-Chief. "There were many excellent and elegant solutions this year, from all corners of the imaging industry - visualization, medical, commercial, machine vision and so on - and choosing just nine was no easy task.
"This is always an exciting time for us," Managing Editor Rich Handley said. "Some of the most interesting submissions we receive all year are for the Solutions of the Year, and I look forward to seeing what those in the industry have achieved in their search for imaging solutions. It's amazing what human intuition, combined with new and existing technology, can accomplish."
Hank Russell, the magazine's Associate Editor, mirrored these sentiments, adding, "The competition was intense - so much important work is being done in this era of technological advancement. There were several, however, who stood out from the rest, and it's our pleasure to be able to recognize such talent and effort."
About REALVIZ Stitcher
Acknowledged as the "industry-standard software for creating panoramas" (3D World), REALVIZ Stitcher is a professional-level application, used by thousands of professional photographers, architects, multimedia and 3D artists worldwide, and enables the creation of high-quality panoramas for the Web, film, print, and 3D. Version 4.0 of Stitcher was recently launched at the annual MACWORLD Expo in San Francisco, and will begin shipping this month.
About REALVIZ
REALVIZ is a leading developer of image based creation software based in Sophia Antipolis, France, with U.S. operations in San Francisco, CA; and a satellite sales office in London & Paris. REALVIZ develops a suite of image-based content creation solutions for the film, broadcast, gaming, digital imaging, architecture and Internet communities. Derived from years of research efforts at the renowned INRIA Lab in France, the company's applications enable 2D and 3D artists to easily and cost-effectively tackle complex digital imaging projects.
