NeonCue

Smaller in Size, Better in Quality

About Us

We offer a codec-agnostic solution that optimizes video compression rates,
enabling businesses to reduce costs while ensuring a premium content experience
for customers with minimal bandwidth usage

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Problem

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SURGE IN ONLINE VIDEO CONSUMPTION

The growing demand for online video content has led to network congestion issues

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CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

Users often experience degraded video quality, resulting in pixelation and buffering, which leads to user frustration and dissatisfaction

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HIGH STORAGE COSTS

Service providers are grappling with the ever-increasing volume of video data. They are burdened by rising expenses for cloud storage or substantial investments in storage infrastructure.

Solution

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AI-BASED VIDEO PROCESSING

We employ our proprietary AI technology to process video signals before and after conventional video codecs for better compression

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OPTIMIZE VIDEO COMPRESSION

The content- and context- aware solution maximizes video compression rates, significantly reducing size up to 50% while maintaining the video quality

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CODEC-AGNOSTIC

The solution works with conventional video codecs in an interoperable manner. This approach enables our solution can be adopted in broad services




NeonCue software achieves a 47% BD-rate saving over the HEVC codec.

People

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Sangyoun Lee
Prof @ Yonsei University

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Education

B.S.
Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

M.S.
Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Ph.D.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

Careers

2004 ~ Present
Professor, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

1989 ~ 2004
Senior Research Engineer, Korea Telecom

Award

2020
2020 Yonsei University Outstanding Achievement Award in Research Excellence

2014 ~ 2019
Yonsei University Outstanding Research Professor Award: 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019

2011
Recognized as one of the top 50 professors for contributing to research funding at Yonsei University

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Hong-Goo Kang
Prof @ Yonsei University

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Education

B.S.
Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

M.S.
Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Ph.D.
Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Careers

2002 ~ Present
Professor, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

2015 ~ 2016
Visiting Scientist, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

2008 ~ 2009
Senior Principal Scientist, Broadcom, Irvine, CA, USA

1996 ~ 2002
Senior Technical Staff Member, AT&T Labs-Research

Award

2020
Interspeech Best paper award

2013
Korean Acoustical Society Excellent Paper Award.

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Yongje Kim
ex)E.V.P of Samsung Electronics

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Education

B.S.
Electronic Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

M.S.
Electronic Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea

Careers

1984 ~ 2022
Samsung Electronics

2018 ~ 2020
Executive Vice President and Head of Service Commercialization at Samsung Electronics Mobile Business Division

2016 ~ 2017
President of Samsung Research America

2011 ~ 2014
Executive Vice President and Research Team Leader at Samsung Electronics DMC Research Center

2005 ~ 2010
Executive Research Team Leader at Samsung Electronics Digital Media (DM) Research Center Award

Award

2014
Listed in Marquis Who’s Who

2007 ~ 2010
Jang Young Shil Award: 2007, 2009, 2010

2005 ~ 2010
Samsung Proud People Award, Technical Grand Prize & Main Prize: 2005, 2010

2004
Grand Prize in Multimedia Technology by The Minister Of Information and Communication of The Republic of Korea

Our History

2021.01

- Establishment of AIonFlow Co., Ltd.

     Initial capital of KRW 10 million


2021.07

- Execution of the Initial Startup Package project

     Government grant of KRW 140 million


2021.09

- Investment attraction from Yonsei University's Technology Holding Company

     Investment of KRW 200 million


2021.11

- Participation in the TIPS program

     Government grant of KRW 500 million


2022.05

- 2021 Final Review and Performance Evaluation of the Initial Startup Package, selected as the Best Enterprise


2023.03

- Former Samsung Electronics Wireless Business Division Vice President and Head of Service Business Division joined the company


2023.05

- Selected for the TIPS program's business startup commercialization

     Government grant of KRW 95 million


2023.05

- Establishment of a corporate-affiliated research institute


2023.07

- Achieved a 43% improvement in image quality compared to the data rate of standard codecs (HEVC, H.264)


2023.11

- The company name has changed from AIonFlow to NeonCue