SSIMWAVE GRANTED U.S. PATENT FOR IMAGE and VIDEO BANDING DETECTION
Summary
SSIMWAVE®, the leader in Viewer Experience QC and Automation, today announced that it has been awarded a patent for image and video banding detection. The solution is already deployed in production by some of the top streaming platforms to optimize for Banding across billions of hours of viewed content. “Establishing a patented method for detecting banding will help preserve the content community’s creative intent, driving all of the high engagement and deep emotion that was intended when the content was produced.” Banding is a common compression impairment that usually appears in smooth regions within encoded videos. “Banding impairment is prevalent across all content, including tentpole titles, streaming services and display devices. The SSIMPLUS quality metric powers our VQ Dial and Video Intelligence Suite products in order for customers to enjoy the peace of mind that comes from the only end-to-end solution that is correlated to human vision.