Beamr Imaging Ltd. Software Codec Development Company Demonstration Video










Beamr was founded in 2009 by the 3-time technologist Sharon Carmel who counts two previous startup exits to his credit including 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 the highest level of support for our enterprise customers, managed service operators, telcos, OTT streaming video distributors, and online-video platforms expect.

Beamr products are known for enabling up to a 35% network reclamation by reducing video files as much as 50% using Beamr’s class-leading HEVC and H.264 Beamr 4x and Beamr 5x encoders. Beamr provides guaranteed video quality at the lowest bitrate for mobile operators and public networks and MSOs seeking to reduce video bandwidth utilization on the network backbone and last mile.

Beamr's perceptual quality measure is based on a proprietary, low complexity, highly reliable, perceptually aligned quality metric that is covered by 33 International granted patents. The existence of this proprietary quality measure enables controlling a video encoder to obtain an output clip with the maximum compression possible while maintaining the original video resolution, format and visual quality. This feat occurs by adjusting the compression level of each Beamr frame in the video sequence so that it is compressed to the maximum while producing a perceptually identical output.

The Beamr quality measure has been in development since 2009. After extensive 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 appear identical to the human eye under regular viewing conditions. This is a secret to how the process is able to guarantee image quality.

At NAB 2019, Beamr showed the results of an Intel silicon accelerated CABR solution, where for the first time, video distributors and 5G mobile operators may use multi-access edge computing to deliver the density, cost, and bitrate efficiency needed for high-volume applications like game streaming, 5G connected autonomous cars, low latency live sports streaming, VR, or any use case where high video quality at low bitrate is needed. For platform developers, silicon accelerated CABR enables new product frontiers for demanding applications such as video editing and publishing on the latest generation of mobile devices, tablets, and desktop computers.

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