Data science and ML techniques can help understand visual content and enable better customer experience across domains, in turn driving the exponential growth in the amount of visual data. Managing large amounts of visual data (images or videos) is extremely time consuming, frustrating, and inefficient due to a lack of data management solutions designed with visual data or data science... Read More

We introduce the Visual Data Management System (VDMS), which enables faster access to big-visual-data and adds support to visual analytics. This is achieved by searching for relevant visual data via metadata stored as a graph, and enabling faster access to visual data through new machine-friendly storage formats. VDMS differs from existing large scale photo serving, video streaming, and textual big-data... Read More