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Excire Foto 2025

Aimed at photographers with the highest standards, the latest version of Excire Foto offers photo (and video!) search and organization like you’ve never experienced. Groundbreaking AI features—from free-text search to aesthetic evaluation—help you rapidly find and select the best photos from large image collections. The focus is on workflow optimization to make finding, organizing, and culling photos & videos easy, fast, and efficient. Learn more!

Excire Search 2024

The latest version of Excire’s powerful Lightroom plugin is here! Harnessing cutting-edge AI, Excire Search 2024 introduces revolutionary new features to streamline your Lightroom workflow, including free-text search and intelligent aesthetic assessments. Plus, dive deep into your photo library with state-of-the-art facial-recognition software, enjoy the ease of automatic keywording, and more. Learn more!

Excire Foto Office Edition

Excire Foto Office Edition is designed to meet the needs of companies that manage a large volume of images in day-to-day business. Our innovative software enables you to consolidate all image material using an automated, structured approach. Since the software is made available for local use, there are no data protection issues and the setup is completed quickly. Learn more!

About Us

The Pattern Recognition Company GmbH (PRC) is an AI technology company with roots at the University of Lübeck. Since its founding, we have been developing innovative software solutions for automated image analysis based on cutting-edge methods from the field of artificial intelligence. Our products – including the Excire photo management software – help individuals, businesses, and public authorities around the world to intelligently organize, search, and analyze large image collections. We combine scientific excellence with practical software development – delivering powerful, data-secure, and user-friendly applications.

Mathias Martinetz,
Managing Director

Mathias held various management positions at IBM and gained extensive experience in the areas of information technology and services. He studied industrial engineering at the TU Berlin and has in-depth expertise in the management of large organizational units, the development and transformation of processes and structures as well as in the areas of shared services and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Prof. Erhardt Barth,
Founder and Managing Director

Erhardt holds a PhD in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich and worked at NASA Ames. He is an internationally recognized expert in computer vision. Together with Thomas Martinetz, and Sascha Klement, he started the gestigon GmbH which was sold in an exit to Valeo.

Dr. Thomas Käster,
CTO

Thomas holds a PhD in Applied Computer Science from Bielefeld University and as CTO is responsible for numerous successful industry projects as well as the Excire product development. He is an expert in machine learning and computer vision and has a deep understanding of deep learning technologies and professional software development.

Prof. Thomas Martinetz,
Founder

Thomas is co-founder of PRC and director of the Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics at the University of Lübeck. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is an internationally recognized expert in machine learning and Neural Networks.