How a University of Waterloo startup is saving operators bandwidth - and money

SSIMWAVE assumes starring role in video qualityA SMALL BUT SWIFTLY growing University of Waterloo tech startup is shaking up the TV and movie industries with a ground-breaking way of tracking video quality on any screen.Founded just five years ago, SSIMWAVE Inc. has already made waves in the broadcasting and pay-TV industries by pioneering analytic metrics and methods for measuring and monitoring video signals. These metrics and methods, designed to replicate the human visual system, enable the company's software probes to track a viewer's actual quality-of-experience (QoE), rather than just the quality of the video signals themselves.Known as SSIM (for structural...