For more than a decade as a student and faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt) president and CEO Dr. Henry Schneiderman became a recognized leader in pattern recognition research, earning nearly $5 million in research contracts and publishing highly respected papers on the emerging computer-based technology that has been used in medical science and for specialized data like speech and images.

Schneiderman and co-founder Michael Nechyba spun off PittPatt from CMU in 2004 and have continued to be at the forefront of pattern recognition technology. With videos flooding the internet and offline marketplace, PittPatt's face detection, face tracking and face recognition software development kit will offer turnkey solutions for video analysis.

That possibilities are many--Internet video, security video, professional entertainment video, amaterur video and video conferencing all cast human faces as their stars, and PittPatt will allow users of its software to go beyond just finding a video to pinpointing scenes containing their desired faces. Production of its patent-pending face mining software at its Strip District headquarters will drive new business.

PittPatt is also building a prototype website called facemining.com that would serve as a public demonstration of its technology seeded with data from the Internet at large. It is hoped the site, expected to launch in June, 2010, will build awareness and excitement around the face-mining technology.  The 10-person company increased its workforce by nearly 50 percent and it expects to hire additional employees in the next year.