WaveOne claimed its approach, which was hardware-agnostic, could reduce the size of video files by as much as half, with better gains in more complex scenes. That is to say, it could make a “best guess” based on whatever bits it had available, so when bandwidth was suddenly restricted, the video wouldn’t freeze it’d just show less detail for the duration. WaveOne also claimed that its video compression tech was robust to sudden disruptions in connectivity. Leveraging AI-powered scene and object detection, the startup’s technology could essentially “understand” a video frame, allowing it to, for example, prioritize faces at the expense of other elements within a scene to save bandwidth. WaveOne’s main innovation was a “content-aware” video compression and decompression algorithm that could run on the AI accelerators built into many phones and an increasing number of PCs. It’s an effective approach, but new codecs require new hardware specially built to accelerate compression or decompression, making improvements slow to propogate. YouTube servers), while end-users’ machines handle the decompressing. Where it concerns standard algorithms for compressing and decompressing video, the compression happens on the content provider’s side (e.g. Prior to joining the venture, Bourdev was a founding member of Meta’s AI research division, and both he and Rippel worked on Meta’s computer vision team responsible for content moderation, visual search and feed ranking on Facebook. WaveOne was founded in 2016 by Lubomir Bourdev and Oren Rippel, who set out to take the decades-old paradigm of video codecs and make them AI-powered.

Apple saw this potential and took the opportunity to add it to their technology portfolio.” “We started our journey at WaveOne, realizing that machine learning and deep learning video technology could potentially change the world. “After almost two years at WaveOne, last week we finalized the sale of the company to Apple,” Stankosh wrote. WaveOne’s former head of sales and business development, Bob Stankosh, announced the sale in a LinkedIn post published a month ago. But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees, including one of WaveOne’s co-founders, now work within Apple’s various machine learning groups. (Photo: CF.Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne, that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video.Īpple wouldn’t confirm the sale when asked for comment. (Photo: CF.C/Whittney Thornton)Īnd a little love from the OL. Where the hell is the handle? (Photo: CF.C/Whittney Thornton) Patmon and Marcus Strong battle for ball. photographer Whitney Thornton was on the sidelines and captured every frame of the play and the ensuing celebration. Not for any seamless beauty but the power of concentration and the fickle nature of a batted ball. More specifically, that's junior receiver Dezmon Patmon and fourth-year junior quarterback Anthony Gordon.īoth players had solid performances on the day, with Patmon hauling in seven passes for 91 yards (both numbers second-highest behind Kyle Sweet) and Gordon connecting on 15 of 21 tosses for 174 yards, the one TD and no INTs.īut their first-half scoring aerial was a highlight. SPOKANE - In the box score of Saturday's Crimson and Gray Game at Albi Stadium, the third scoring aerial of Washington State's final spring scrimmage read simply: Patmon 23-yard scoring pass from Gordon. DEZMON PATMON (Photo: CF.C/Whittney Thornton)

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