iSIZE was recently featured in the latest edition of FEED magazine. In the article, CEO Sergio Grce discusses how the company was founded and how iSIZE’s technology can improve the quality of video streaming while reducing its carbon footprint. With over 80% of internet traffic being video, the amount of emissions generated from video streaming has become a significant concern. …
Recently, iSIZE was featured in an article by Craig S. Smith in IEEE Spectrum, which discusses the potential of AI in revolutionising the video compression landscape. In this article, CEO Sergio Grce and CTO Yiannis Andreopoulos discuss how iSIZE enhances conventional video encoders with AI-based pre-processing to improve the quality and bit-rate efficiency of conventional encoders. “By adding an AI …
iSIZE has partnered with MulticoreWare, a global technology company which leads in video encoding. The partnership brings together iSIZE’s ground-breaking BitSave video pre-processing with MulticoreWare’s powerful x265 HEVC encoder to provide exceptional quality and efficiency, across many industries and use cases. The new solution will be unveiled on MulticoreWare’s booth W1677 at NAB 2023. BitSave is a widely used video …
Neural avatars have emerged as a new technology for interactive remote presence. Amongst other things, they are expected to influence video conferencing, mixed reality frameworks (e.g. remote appearances at physical meetings), and 2D or 3D gaming and metaverse applications. At the moment, they are limited to either cartoon representations of the speaker (e.g. Mesh avatars for Microsoft Teams) or experimental …
The SEQUOIA project, a collaborative R&D effort between iSIZE, the BBC R&D and Queen Mary University of London, has been completed successfully. This project was awarded a competitive grant of £700k from Innovate UK. Innovate UK is a part of UKRI, the national funding agency dedicated to investing in science and industrial research in the UK. SEQUOIA looks at the …
iSIZE CTO Yiannis Andreopoulos gave an insightful presentation at the NVIDIA GTC Developer Conference on March 23rd 2023, where he talked about bridging the gap between “Codec” and “Avatar”. During the presentation, Yiannis discussed the current neural avatar solutions and three challenges they need to overcome: reliability at scale, minimal or no offline data capture complexity, and minimal training/inference complexity. He …
iSIZE has recently joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Programme as a Build Partner. Being part of the Build Engagement Model means iSIZE can deliver solutions on Google Cloud, and serve organisations that are using it to deliver their video services. As a Google Cloud partner, iSIZE can implement its advanced technologies, including BitSave and BitClear, as part of wider …
iSIZE has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Programme as a Build Partner. Being part of the Build Engagement Model means iSIZE can deliver solutions on Google Cloud, and serve organisations that are using it to deliver their video services. As a Google Cloud partner, iSIZE can implement its advanced technologies, including BitSave and BitClear, as part of wider video …
We are pleased to join Intel at the DEG EnTech 2023 taking place on March 29 in Los Angeles. EnTech is an exciting opportunity for content distribution and marketing executives, platform partners, technology enablers, trend trackers, connected device and display developers, and all innovators across the digital entertainment ecosystem, including DEG member studios and platforms, to come together and discuss …
Faultline has been following the progress of video delivery deep learning start-up iSIZE Technologies since NAB 2020, when the company caught our eye with a demo of its pixel-to-pixel neural network for optimizing video frames at the video pre-encoding stage. Approaching three years later, iSIZE has achieved a feat that was previously impossible without a specialized GPU or other accelerator …
