Appscio™, Inc. is the leader in the application of media mining algorithms to government, enterprise and web media management problems. Appscio, a Freedom, CA-based company, was incorporated in 2007, by visionaries who anticipated rapid, widespread deployment of low cost digital video devices. The founders realized the central problem in managing the video from these devices is harvesting metadata from within the media to enable indexing and segmentation.

Media mining algorithms which generate this metadata have been developed with substantial government funding by hundreds of research projects and institutions. However, until today, their work was developed and deployed in proprietary, closed applications. No simple, standard mechanism existed for leveraging the work of others, bridging audio and video domains, or combining algorithms. To address this problem, Appscio developed its open source, open architecture media processing framework. The Appscio™ Media Processing Framework (Appscio™ MPF) creates a plug-in architecture for video and audio algorithms that allows Appscio, researchers, and customers alike to rapidly develop and deploy applications utilizing best-of-breed media mining algorithms.

Appscio sells applications and services built on the Appscio MPF, and sponsors an open source project to extend its capabilities. Appscio licenses, commercializes, certifies, tests, documents, benchmarks, and resells media mining algorithms developed by others; for example, commercial entities, research organizations, and individuals. Appscio does not develop proprietary media mining algorithms of its own.

The Appscio Name

The Appscio MPF enables the processing of event information from a varety of data sources - audio, video, sensors, as well as humans - and supplies context to power "knowing" applications. The Appscio name (pronounced 'app - see - o') emphasizes this value. Appscio is the abbreviation of application combined with the Latin verb scio meaning I know.