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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
iSIZE has released its first performance results taking advantage of the new Intel architecture developed for the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor. Called Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel AMX), the new design allows AI-based video processing like iSIZE BitClear to be performed entirely within the CPU, avoiding the latency, energy and cost overheads of linking to a GPU or other external accelerator. The volume …
The IABM reports on iSIZE becoming a member of Greening of Streaming. This is a global forum with members across every aspect of content streaming which addresses the ever-growing concerns about the energy impact of the streaming sector. “Sustainability is one of the core principles at the heart of iSIZE and its technologies,” said Yiannis Andreopoulos, CTO and co-founder of …
AMD recently unveiled its 4th Gen EPYC™ CPUs. In light of this launch, Alex Davies of Rethink Research sat down with iSIZE CTO, Yiannis Andreopoulos to find out more about the benefits of the new designs for video workloads. Using 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, running real-world tests to accelerate the neural network inferences in BitSave and BitClear, iSIZE achieves …
The world’s largest video streaming platforms alone account for a few billion users globally. Live video is demanding far more bits per second than any other type of internet usage. In 2019, Cisco estimated that video would make up at least 80% of the 4.8 zetabytes of data being delivered over the internet by 2022. More than a billion hours …
The 2021 Carbon Trust report Carbon impact of video streaming estimated that one hour of video streaming emitting a total of 50-60g of Co2. Petrol cars emit many times that amount but the climate emergency is such that M&E needs to do more to eliminate carbon in the system. There are multiple carbon cost centres for content, including production itself …
