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WINNER
WINNER
V-Nova
Perseus V-Nova was founded in 2011 by a team of
2000. Perseus is inherently and continuously
traction with Tier-1 chipset manufacturers,
experts involved in the development of first
hierarchical, delivering all resolutions (SD, HD
operators, systems integrators and
generation codecs (e.g., MPEG/JPEG). At
and UHD video) within a single stream. This
compression vendors, including Alcatel-
a time when the industry was realising that
renders HD bandwidths sufficient to carry all
Lucent, nVidia and more.
today’s compression technologies will not meet
three formats without the need for simulcasting:
tomorrow’s bandwidth and business challenges,
significantly reducing resource redundancy.
processing technology is based on the principles
the V-Nova engineering team thought outside
Another crucial advantage of Perseus is its
underlying human vision, with its performance
the box. To meet these challenges, they have
compatibility with existing MPEG-based delivery
based upon the following five pillars:
delivered a paradigm shift in video compression
ecosystems, ensuring deployment is cost-
•Correlation based: identifying correlation
technology that can massively drive change
effective and straightforward.
in space and time to create highly efficient
and service innovation in the TV and media
Perseus also provides many advantages
The Perseus advanced video and image
encoding, an approach that is far more
sector by moving the entire video bitrate-quality
beyond bitrate reduction: including significantly
powerful than legacy codecs which rely on
curve to enable UHD quality video at HD bitrates,
increased processing speed, lower power
reducing redundancy
HD at SD bitrates, and SD video at sub-audio
consumption, increased robustness, and graceful,
•Massively parallel: so that Perseus can use the
bitrates, extending the reach of video services
block-free degradation at ultra low bitrates. This
power of today’s chips, unlike legacy codecs
to UHD delivered to connected devices over
in turn enables operators to offer enhanced
which were designed for linear chip architectures
3G and 4G networks. Perseus delivers significant
video quality and to reach more households
•Hierarchical: achieved by adding and shedding
improvements in picture quality, processing
with OTT and VoD services.
unnecessary detail within a single file or stream.
speed using standard hardware, signal
Since its launch, this game-changing
Encryption is also aided by the hierarchical
robustness, as well as simultaneous reductions in
technology has delivered significant benefits to
structure: because only 5 to 10 percent of a file
footprint, power usage and library redundancy.
service providers and end-users across the media
needs to be encrypted to enable full encryption,
Graceful, block-free degradation at ultra-low
industry. For example, Sky Italia’s integration
Perseus ensures that content can be securely
bitrates is another unique benefit.
of Perseus to address the pressure on its IP
delivered with far greater efficiency
backbone achieved a 100 percent increase
•Multi-scale: As a consequence of its hierarchical
performance is delivered by Perseus, a
in capacity while retaining the high-quality
format, Perseus is also multi-scale, which means
completely new approach to image and
standards of the video feeds.
that all standards of video can be delivered
This unprecedented video compression
video processing, inspired by the principles
The deployment of Perseus for Encompass
within a single file or stream
underlying human vision. The technology,
Digital Media delivered quality video for internet
•Holistic: Perseus has been designed to process
which launched in April 2015, differs significantly
streaming at a lower cost than high-quality
images in parallel using matrix multiplications,
from legacy solutions in terms of its advanced
fibre streaming media, OTT delivery on lower
rather than filtering data sequentially, as
lossless, multi-scale, hierarchical and low latency
bandwidths, and 4K and 8K UHD TV via satellite
in legacy codecs. This has the significant
properties. The performance delivered by
to cable systems.
advantage of processing less data overall,
Perseus is unachievable with existing compression technology such as H.264, HEVC or JPEG
Perseus has also been endorsed by scores of industry players and is enjoying strong market
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significantly increasing processing time and eliminating the need for block-related features.