5G video services are better with @BeamrVideo CABR. #5G #videostreaming #livevideostreaming #HEVC #mobilevideo pic.twitter.com/mzWuPzjLpl
— BEAMR (@BeamrVideo) June 28, 2019
Beamr Imaging began in 2009 by the serial technology entrepreneur Sharon Carmel who counts two previous startup exits to his credit which include a digital graphics and imaging technology company that rocketed to a $7 billion valuation on the London stock exchange, and a cloud synchronization company acquired by Phoenix Technologies. Beamr maintains offices around the world in Tel Aviv Israel, St. Petersburg Russia, and Palo Alto California. This guarantees world-class support for our enterprise customers, MSOs, mobile operators, online video distributors, and OVPs expect.
Beamr solutions provide as much as a 35% network reclamation by reducing the file and stream sizes of video traffic using Beamr’s class-leading HEVC and H.264 Beamr 4x and Beamr 5x video codecs. Beamr offers the highest video quality at the lowest bitrate for telcos and public networks and managed service platforms seeking to reduce video bandwidth utilization on the network backbone and edge.
The Beamr perceptual quality measure is built on a proprietary, low complexity, highly reliable, perceptually aligned quality metric that is covered by thirty-three granted patents. The existence of this special quality measure enables controlling a video encoder to output a stream with the maximum compression possible while maintaining the original video resolution, format and visual quality. CABR does this by controlling the compression level of each frame in the video sequence so that it is compressed to the maximum while producing a visual result that is the same as the quality that was originally specified.
The Beamr quality measure has been in development since 2009. After years of refinement, and subjecting it to the strict requirements and testing of ITU BT.500 which is an International standard for certifying image quality, we were able to confirm that there is a sufficiently high correlation of our quality measure with subjective results. The Beamr quality measure takes into account temporal artifacts. Since it is not sufficient to ensure only at the frame level that degradation has not been introduced - it is also necessary to preserve the quality of the video's temporal flow. If you view a video encoded using the VBR rate-control and a video encoded with the CABR rate-control side-by-side, they will be perceptually identical to the human eye under regular viewing conditions. This is a secret to how the process is able to guarantee image quality.
The industry has enjoyed significant advances in software encoding, video codecs, and tools, meanwhile the pace of video growth on the network is expanding faster than the availability of CPUs, causing silicon encoding solutions using GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs to come back into focus. Beamr silicon accelerated CABR encoding opens new opportunities with very low TCO for mobile, edge, and cloud applications. The more info work Beamr is doing on silicon is closing the gap between the high performance of hardware encoders, and the complexity of advanced algorithms like CABR which traditionally were only able to be implemented in software on a CPU.