Sony Interactive Entertainment has reached an agreement to acquire iSIZEa London-based company that specializes in deep learning for video delivery, the company Announced.
“iSIZE creates AI-powered solutions to deliver bitrate savings and quality improvements for the media and entertainment industry,” Sony Interactive Entertainment Future Technology Group Senior Vice President Ueli Gallizzi said in a statement. “The acquisition provides [Sony Interactive Entertainment] with significant experience in applying machine learning to video processing, which will benefit a variety of our R&D efforts as well as our video and streaming services.”
Founded in 2016, iSIZE has a team of engineers and technical experts who have developed a set of video optimization software solutions, such as an AI-based perceptual preprocessing solution that enables conventional third-party encoders to produce higher-quality video. quality at a significantly lower bit rate.