| Website | motiondsp.com |
| Category | Communications |
| Phone | 650-288-1164 |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1/05 |
| Description | Video Enhancement Software |
MotionDSP develops powerful video enhancement software around its patented super-resolution algorithms for government, commercial, and consumer applications. Its CSI-style “Ikena” forensic products are used by intelligence and law enforcement agencies. In March of 2009, in partnership with NVIDIA, MotionDSP will launch “vReveal,” desktop software that leverages intelligence-grade technology for fixing the issues that plague consumer-generated video: shake, noise artifacts, pixelation, poor lighting, and low resolution. vReveal is CPU-compatible, but has been ported to NVIDIA’s CUDA architecture to take advantage of the additional processing power of NVIDIA GPUs.
MotionDSP is a San Mateo company that outsources much of its software development to Serbia. The company’s investors include NVIDIA and In-Q-Tel.
| Website | motiondsp.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | October 30, 2006 |
| Tags | video-fingerprinting |
The Ikena Copyright system produces a collection of hashes from existing video content. These hashes are then run against new video to attempt to find matches. Unlike other fingerprinting technologies, Ikena Copyright generates hashes based on motion and not color or audio. A problem facing video hashers is that it is not difficult to obscure video attributes such as color, size, audio or resolution. Most hashing software is easily fooled by the traditional bootleg video which is made by recording directly off a TV or Movie screen. Ikena Copyright, MotionDSP claims, can detect such bootlegs because it is much more challenging to alter motion. Ikena Copyright’s major competitor is Audible Magic, which filters video for Google’s YouTube.
| Website | motiondsp.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | July 19, 2007 |
| Tags | video-enhancement, gpu-software, video-forensics, nvidia |
MotionDSP’s video enhancement product takes low quality (camera phone quality) video and renders it clearer and less pixilated. Its software compares video frames which are close together and deduces which pixels are missing or altered, then fixes them. The end product is not much larger than the original file, conserving much needed space.
