Sony Interactive Entertainment to acquire video delivery solutions company iSIZE

Sony Interactive Entertainment has entered into an agreement to acquire iSIZE, a London-based company specializing in deep learning for video delivery, the company announced.

“iSIZE builds AI-powered solutions to deliver bitrate savings and quality improvements for the media and entertainment industry,” said Sony Interactive Entertainment Future Technology Group senior vice president Ueli Gallizzi in a statement. “The acquisition provides [Sony Interactive Entertainment] with significant expertise in applying machine learning to video processing, which will benefit a range of our R&D efforts as well as our video and streaming services.”

iSIZE was founded in 2016 and has a team of engineers and technical experts who have developed a suite of video optimization software solutions, such as a an AI-based perceptual preprocessing solution that allows conventional, third-party encoders to produce higher quality video at a significantly lower bitrate.