EUCLID DISCOVERIES TAPS DR. NIGEL LEE TO JOIN THE TEAM

Former MIT Research Lab Scientist Named Chief Algorithmic Engineer

Concord, MA (July 11, 2007) - Euclid Discoveries, a developer of video compression enabling technologies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Nigel Lee.  Dr. Lee has joined the Euclid team as the Chief Algorithmic Engineer.  In this role, he will work on the commercialization of Euclid’s video compression technology.

Nigel Lee brings extensive experience in matrix theory, adaptive signal processing, and systems analysis to Euclid Discoveries, where he will work to develop advanced algorithms for image and video processing.  Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Lee was a principal investigator in the Advanced Sensor Techniques Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, MA.   There, he developed advanced adaptive processing techniques to improve the detection and classification of submarine targets via both submarine towed arrays and torpedo arrays.

Charles P. Pace, Euclid’s Chief Technology Officer said, “Nigel’s experience and background creating processing algorithms is a great fit and brings to the team key competencies needed as we take the technology from the research phase into commercial application. We know he will be a tremendous asset to our company as we continue to develop our groundbreaking technology,” he added.

Dr. Lee has also managed projects as an electronics engineer for the Weapons Technology Branch of the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI.  He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown University in Providence, RI, with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.  After undergraduate study, he obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in New Jersey.

About Euclid Discoveries

Euclid Discoveries researches and develops next-generation video processing and compression technology.  In order to meet consumer demand for high quality video on any video-enabled device, the company developed EuclidVision™.  EuclidVision is a proprietary technology, which will reduce file sizes dramatically and remove current bandwidth constraints for the ubiquitous transmission of high quality video.  This technology has clear potential applications in a host of industries beyond consumer electronics and telecommunications including surveillance, and image mining.  For more information on Euclid Discoveries, please visit www.eucliddiscoveries.com.  

EUCLID DISCOVERIES IS GRANTED 1^st PATENT FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

Patent acknowledges the advancements of EuclidVision™, the next generation of video compression technology for consumer and commercial applications

Concord, Massachusetts (May 1, 2007) - Euclid Discoveries, a developer of video compression enabling technologies, is pleased to announce that it has been recently awarded U.S. patent number 7,158,680.   The patent was granted for an “apparatus and method for processing video data.”  The patent stakes Euclid Discoveries’ claim to key enabling discoveries in computer vision and image understanding – technological underpinnings of future breakthroughs in video compression.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a representation of video data that can be used to assess agreement between the data and a fitting model for a particular parameterization of the data… This allows the comparison of different parameterization techniques and the selection of the optimum one for continued video processing of the particular data… (The) invention can be used in processes for storage, enhancement, refinement, feature extraction, compression, coding, and transmission of video data."   The official patent can be viewed on-line at http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=7158680. 

Euclid Discoveries’ CEO and co-founder, Richard Wingard, responded to the patent grant by stating, “We are pleased that the U.S. patent office agrees that Euclid Discoveries’ video processing method is indeed groundbreaking, and deserves intellectual property protection. Our first patent includes 10 foundational claims that provide the basis for all our subsequent patents and establishes our ownership of the space.”

Euclid continues to advance its video compression technology and to date has filed twenty-five additional patent applications with the USPTO and key international agencies.  These patents cover both the technical and business applications of Euclid’s proprietary video compression system.  Ultimately, this technology will let users utilize mobile devices like cell phones for high-definition video conferencing, or use an iPod for storing hundreds of full-length, high-quality movies.

Euclid Discoveries researches and develops Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition technologies representing the next-generation video processing and compression technology. In order to meet consumer demand for high quality video on a multitude of devices, the company developed EuclidVision™. EuclidVision is a proprietary technology, which will increase video compression ratios by an order of magnitude - reducing file size dramatically and removing existing bandwidth constraints currently blocking the ubiquitous transmission of high quality video. This technology has clear potential applications in a host of industries beyond consumer electronics and telecommunications including surveillance, and image mining. For more information on Euclid Discoveries, please visit www.eucliddiscoveries.com.

September 18, 2006

Euclid Discoveries’ Video Compression Technology Now Works On Movies And TV Shows

Euclid Leverages Improved Object-based Compression
To Tackle New Video Types

Concord, Massachusetts (September 18, 2006) -  Euclid Discoveries (www.eucliddiscoveries.com) announces a major advancement in the evolution of its EuclidVision™ video compression technology, which now has applications for general entertainment video. Previous versions of EuclidVision achieved compression ratios as high as 15,168 to 1, a 460% improvement over the MPEG-4 standard, which is the state of the art for digital video.

Because EuclidVision now works with any type of video, the door has opened to applying this technology to both portable and streaming video applications. These types of applications would include wireless streaming of video to cell phones and dramatic increases in storage for personal electronics.

“The previous version of the technology proved that EuclidVision could achieve unprecedented compression improvements over the state of the art, but it was limited by the types of video it could use,” said Euclid Discoveries CEO Richard Wingard. “Recent integration of our underlying compression technology allows EuclidVision to work with almost any type of video, including movies and TV-shows, and not just the ‘head and shoulders’ video common to video conferencing applications.”

This announcement heralds a major integrative development of the firm’s Object-based Compression, or “OBC,” technology. Euclid defines OBC as technology that analyzes salient structure in the video to achieve higher compression ratios. This application of OBC is a major advancement when considering other compression technologies, including MPEG-4, which is based on “Discrete Cosine Transform” or “DCT.”

These continual improvements in the company’s OBC technology gives it the ability to focus on smaller and subtler objects in the video, which is what enables EuclidVision to diversify the types of video it can compress.

Euclid Discoveries’ most recent breakthroughs were driven by its technology team, led by Chief Technology Officer Charles Pace. Their work has also helped generate new discoveries that have resulted in the company recently filing its 20th patent with PCT and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

“Our team has been steadily extending object-based compression for years, but we feel this new refinement is the critical piece to making this type of Computer Vision technology broadly applicable in the commercial sector,” said Charles. “Our initial strategy had been to push for higher and higher compression rates and this additional ability to process television or movie content is the key development that many technologists have been waiting for.”

The architects of MPEG-4 technology anticipated OBC as the future video standard but, prior to Euclid Discoveries, no firm had managed to make OBC commercially viable. The MPEG-4 standard describes the parts of a rudimentary form of object-based compression through “Video Object Planes,” facial modeling, and 3D object modeling – providing only a definition of these concepts without providing the means of applying these directly towards the goal of high compression ratios.

“Our recent accomplishments should effectively silence the naysayers who said that EuclidVision was a one-trick pony that would only work with video-conferencing type applications,” said Euclid Discoveries President Robert Werner. “Now that we have shown the breadth of EuclidVision in tackling different video types, we plan to go deep, achieving further breakthroughs in compression rates.”

About Euclid Discoveries
Euclid Discoveries researches and develops Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition technologies representing the next-generation video processing and compression technology. In order to meet consumer demand for high quality video on a multitude of devices, the company developed EuclidVision™. EuclidVision is a proprietary technology, which will increase video compression ratios by an order of magnitude - reducing file size dramatically and removing existing bandwidth constraints currently blocking the ubiquitous transmission of high quality video. This technology has clear potential applications in a host of industries beyond consumer electronics and telecommunications including surveillance, and image mining. Euclid Discoveries has also developed a rigorous testing environment, EuclidStudio™, to evaluate video compression and quality for MPEG-4 and other compression technologies. For more information on Euclid Discoveries and its offerings, please visit www.eucliddiscoveries.com.

Euclid Discoveries Shatters Bandwidth Barrier Using Object-based Video Compression

Euclid Achieves 460% Improvement Over MPEG-4 With No Loss Of Visual Quality, Paving The Way For Video Conferencing On Mobile Phones

Concord, Massachusetts (March 28, 2006)-  Euclid Discoveries (www.eucliddiscoveries.com), a video compression firm, announced that its technology has achieved compression ratios of 15,168 to 1 for certain videos. The technology, called EuclidVision™, greatly exceeds the current standard for digital video with a 460 percent improvement over MPEG-4, which implies more than a 600 percent improvement over DVD video format MPEG-2 for certain videos.

EuclidVision paves the way for applications like video conferencing on mobile phones, and streaming live, high-quality video to portable devices like PDAs.

“Because we’re building off the existing MPEG-4 standard extensions, we have video compression technology that will eventually work with the hardware and software that is available now,” said Richard Wingard, CEO of Euclid Discoveries. “Bandwidth limitations have stifled the promise of wireless digital video for years. By providing an order of magnitude increase, we just solved that problem.”

EuclidVision uses a new generation of video compression known as “Object-Based Compression” or “OBC,” which refers to technology that analyzes shapes in the video to achieve higher compression ratios. This is a major departure from other compression technologies, including MPEG-4, which are based on “Discrete Cosine Transform” or “DCT.”

The architects of MPEG-4 technology envisioned OBC as the future for this video standard but before Euclid Discoveries, no firm managed to make it work. The MPEG-4 standard anticipates object-based compression through “Object Planes,” facial modeling, and 3D object modeling – providing only a definition of these concepts without providing the means of employing them toward the goal of high compression ratios.

“While this is a revolutionary concept for the general public, the video industry saw this coming,” said Euclid Discoveries President Bob Werner. “Still, no one thought it would be coming so soon. Many thought this level of mathematical modeling would have taken another ten years to develop.”

Applications
EuclidVision testing has focused on what the firm calls “streaming commentator” applications. This is video that shows the head and shoulders of the subject, which makes the current generation of the technology optimized for video conferencing applications, or simple newscasts.

For streaming commentator video, Euclid can reduce a 23 MB video file to a 1,519 byte file – effectively enabling sub-4Kbps, low-bandwidth streams for wired and wireless applications. The streaming commentator application provides a rigorous proving ground for EuclidVision.

In the coming months, Euclid Discoveries expects to complete tests demonstrating its ability to process all video types including full-length movies, and at increased compression rates. Ultimately, EuclidVision should be able to reduce the current MPEG-4 attainable 700 MB file size for 2-hour long videos down to 50MB – finally making feature length movies as “swappable” as MP3s.

“The potential of object-based technology is so great that it seems counterintuitive to what most people know about compression,” said Euclid Discoveries’ Chief Software Architect Chuck Pace. “By bringing Computer Vision algorithms into the video compression world we’ve taken this first, momentous leap, and anticipate even larger reductions in video file sizes are soon to follow.”

Validation
The Company validated the technology by making a head-to-head comparison between EuclidVision and MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC (a.k.a. H.264) – the state-of-the-art for video conferencing – on a network with 9 kilobits per second of bandwidth. This bandwidth-constrained network simulates what people could get from a typical mobile phone connection.

Euclid Discoveries started with a baseline test to show that it could achieve similar digital output to MPEG-4 in this bandwidth environment. Then it lowered the bandwidth to 4 kilobits per second, resulting in a total breakdown of the MPEG-4 output, but a clear, recognizable video using EuclidVision.

EuclidVision compressed a 23 MB 30fps reference video down to 1,519 bytes (15,168:1 compression ratio, 3.56 Kbps bandwidth). MPEG-4 H.264 compressed the same video at similar quality to 8,518 bytes (2,705:1 compression ratio, 19.96 Kbps). Given that MPEG-4 is 50% more efficient than MPEG-2, the 5.6 times improvement over MPEG-4 represents an implied 740% improvement over MPEG-2.

“We’re producing visually meaningful video clips in a bandwidth constrained environment going down as low as 1.6 kilobit per second. This makes many of the bandwidth constraints for digital video moot,” said Jeff Roberts, Technical Product Manager for Euclid Discoveries. “We basically wanted to see how low we could go; we quickly realized that no one gets close to us in terms of operating in a low-bandwidth environment.”

How It Works
EuclidVision’s technology is object-based. In simple terms, EuclidVision recognizes objects in the video, like a face, and applies new compression techniques to those objects differing from the background. Current video compression using Discrete Cosine Transform does not look at objects; it just applies a constant rate of compression to the entire frame or picture.

As EuclidVision becomes more sophisticated, it will be able to identify more and smaller objects, allowing for higher rates of compression. Already, EuclidVision has achieved compression ratios of up to 38,000 to one in a test setting.

“EuclidVision represents ‘new math’ in the video compression space,” said Euclid Discoveries’ Werner. “It took 15 years to move from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4, which represents a 50% improvement. In a fraction of that time, we’ve gone from 50% to 460%.”

Patent Protection There is no company that is solely dedicated to making such effective use of this methodology besides Euclid Discoveries, and the company has effectively shut the door on future competitors because of its diligent patent filings covering key aspects of this underlying technology.

As of December 2005, Euclid Discoveries filed 15 patent filings covering “Apparatus and Method for Processing Video Data.” The patents stake the Euclid Discoveries’ claim to key enabling discoveries in computer vision and image understanding.

“Our U.S. and international patent is the insurance policy covering Euclid Discoveries’ intellectual property, the key assets of the firm,” said Euclid Discoveries’ Wingard. “These protections provide a major barrier to entry for companies looking to move into this area of compression, allowing us to effectively own this space.”

About Euclid Discoveries
Euclid Discoveries researches and develops next-generation video processing and compression technology. In order to meet consumer demand for high quality video on any video-enabled device, the company developed EuclidVision™. EuclidVision is a proprietary technology, which will increase video compression ratios by an order of magnitude - reducing file size dramatically and removing existing bandwidth constraints for the transmission of high quality video. This technology has clear potential applications in a host of industries beyond consumer electronics and telecommunications including surveillance, and image mining. Euclid Discoveries has also developed a rigorous testing environment, EuclidStudio™, to evaluate video compression and quality for MPEG-4 and other compression technologies. For more information on Euclid Discoveries and its offerings, please visit www.eucliddiscoveries.com.

Euclid Discoveries Files 15^th Application With United States Patent And Trademark Office

Patents advance the development of EuclidVision™, the next generation of video compression technology for consumer and commercial applications

Concord, Massachusetts (December 21, 2005)-  Euclid Discoveries, a developer of video compression enabling technologies, is pleased to announce the completion of the most recent of 15 patent filings with U.S. and international agencies.

These filings specifically cover “Apparatus and Method for Processing Video Data.” The patents stake the Euclid Discoveries’ claim to key enabling discoveries in computer vision and image understanding – technological underpinnings of future breakthroughs in video compression.

“We have spent a great deal of time and money safeguarding our discoveries with U.S. and international patent filings,” said Euclid Discoveries CEO and co-founder Richard Wingard. “Euclid Discoveries’ value – like that of most startup technology companies – is tied up in its intellectual property, and it was critical for us to vigorously protect our groundbreaking discoveries.”

The patent applications lay an intellectual property foundation for Euclid Discoveries that supports the advanced algorithmic innovations yielding unprecedented compression ratios for video. Ultimately, this technology will let users utilize mobile devices like cell phones for high-definition video conferencing, or use an iPod for storing hundreds of full-length, high-quality movies.

Twelve of these filings have been with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and three of those twelve have been for Regular Patent Applications. In conjunction with these filings, the company has also registered claims with the World Intellectual Property Organization under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). These claims preserve Euclid Discoveries’ rights to file individual patent applications with each of the 120 PCT member states.

“Euclid Discoveries’ prides itself on being as thorough and timely in its filings as any firm in the technology space,” said Bentley Pace, Knowledge Manager of Euclid Discoveries. “In the current environment, a company’s value can be made or broken on the basis of its intellectual property protection and documentation. The stakes are high for Euclid Discoveries knowledge group, and we can accept nothing less than comprehensive protection.”

About Euclid Discoveries
Euclid Discoveries researches and develops next-generation video processing and compression technology. In order to meet consumer demand for high quality video on any video-enabled device, the company developed EuclidVision™. EuclidVision is a proprietary technology, based on the MPEG-4 standard, that will increase video compression ratios by orders of magnitude - reducing file size dramatically and removing existing bandwidth constraints for the transmission of high quality video. This technology has clear potential applications in a host of industries beyond consumer electronics and telecommunications including medical imaging, weather forecasting and image mining. Euclid Discoveries has also developed a rigorous testing environment, EuclidStudio™, to accurately evaluate video compression and quality for MPEG-4 compression technologies. For more information on Euclid Discoveries and its offerings, please visit www.eucliddiscoveries.com.

Euclid Discoveries Encourages Adoption of MPEG-4 Standard Through EuclidStudio™

Integration environment now available for free to develop and test video compression

CONCORD, Mass. --  Euclid Discoveries, a developer of video compression and other enabling technologies, announces the public availability of EuclidStudio™, its video integration environment. EuclidStudio, recently introduced at the MPEG-4 committee meeting, is promoting the adoption of the MPEG-4 multimedia standards. This publicly available technology allows video and computer vision researchers to analyze and test video processing algorithms using an environment that more directly supports the development of high performance video and computer vision algorithms, functionality that was previously unavailable in non-commercial form.

"The industry needs a common set of widely available higher level tools for promotion of the most advanced MPEG standards and EuclidStudio supports such efforts," said Richard Wingard, CEO of Euclid Discoveries. "We are delighted to contribute to the evolution and adoption of MPEG-4 and look forward to future integration for Digital-Rights and Meta-Data Management."

Once installed, users can capture video from a camera or load video from a file and perform compression/decompression (codec) operations on that video. As these operations are being performed, visualization windows and graphs aid the user in an understanding of the internal functioning of the video compression algorithms. Additionally, the application offers the ability to capture one or more of the many visualization windows, tiling them into frames of standard video files that can be saved for later play back on any standard media player.

As an example of the integration capabilities of EuclidStudio, the popular Viola/Jones Face Detector is included. The example uses the face detector in order to crop out a smaller video from the original video that only contains the most predominant face. If this functionality is enabled, the smaller face centered video is used as input into the codec.

EuclidStudio is an integration environment for the development of video processing algorithms. Built on multi-platform open source libraries, EuclidStudio provides researchers and engineers with an advanced starting point from which to begin their development process. The MPEG-4 AVC and Viola/Jones face detector algorithms in the current release represent a simple example of the integration, visualization and execution of algorithms inside the EuclidStudio environment.

EuclidStudio was created through the internal development of video processing algorithms at Euclid Discoveries and is primarily built on Intel's OpenCV and the FLTK ("fulltick") GUI libraries. The company plans to follow the release of EuclidStudio by offering it as an open source project in Q4. Euclid Discoveries also plans to release further open source, including Euclid's code for integrating with various computer vision libraries such as NIH's ITK for medical imaging, and the consortium based VXL libraries. In addition, the company also plans to release its Matlab integration modules, offering its rich suite of algorithmic capabilities to those using the EuclidStudio environment.

For more information or to download EuclidStudio, please visit Euclid Discoveries' Web site at http://www.eucliddiscoveries.com.

About Euclid Discoveries

Euclid Discoveries is a software development company dedicated to enabling the convergence of computer vision and video processing. Currently concentrating on video compression and other enabling technologies, Euclid Discoveries identifies needs in the marketplace for which innovative technologies can provide a dramatic solution. The company's core technology is an integrated framework of software-based video processing algorithms named EuclidVision™. Euclid Discoveries is a member of both the MPEG standards committee and the MPEG Industry Forum, a not-for-profit organization to further the adoption of MPEG standards. Euclid Discoveries is based in Concord, Massachusetts. For more information or to download the latest version of EuclidStudio, please visit http://www.eucliddiscoveries.com

Euclid Discoveries Announces Prestigious New Appointment to its Executive Team

CONCORD, Mass. --  Algorithmic Expert Dr. John Weiss PhD. will play a key role in the Development of EuclidVision

Euclid Discoveries, a developer of video compression and other enabling technologies, announces the appointment of Dr. John Weiss, PhD., as chief algorithmic engineer. Dr. Weiss will lead initiatives to research, develop and benchmark EuclidVision™, which is positioned to become a leading video compression technology for consumer applications.

"Dr. Weiss brings a strong reputation as well as a wealth of experience to our team," said Richard Wingard, CEO of Euclid Discoveries. "His expertise and proven success will bring EuclidVision to a new level and move it closer to becoming a next generation video compression technology."

Weiss is famed with developing a fundamental method for nonlinear partial differential equations based upon the Painleve Property, which is called the "Singular Manifold" method. He is also noted for developing the "Okubo-Weiss Criterion" for predicting and understanding the long-term behavior of two- dimensional turbulence, which can be used for predicting the behavior of weather systems. Weiss' contributions to the video compression industry include the development of a translation and invariant wavelet transformation, which enhances the compression rates in video.

"I'm excited to be part of Euclid's lead development team," said Dr. John Weiss, Ph.D. "This opportunity provides me with a platform to further build upon concepts that will have significant value in the video compression industry."

Dr. Weiss, PhD., will be based at Euclid headquarters in Concord, Massachusetts. With over 25 years of experience with algorithms, engineering and matrix theory, Dr. Weiss has published numerous works and is a regular speaker at industry events including engagements at the Institute for Mathematics and Applications, MIT Applied Mathematics and the Canadian Mathematical Society. Before his appointment to Euclid, Dr. Weiss has acted as a consultant for Prometheus Inc.

About Euclid Discoveries

Euclid Discoveries is a software development company concentrating on video compression and other enabling technologies. Euclid Discoveries identifies needs in the marketplace and develops compelling technologies to address those needs. The company's core technology is an integrated framework of software-based algorithms called EuclidVision™. Euclid Discoveries is based in Concord, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit their website at http://www.eucliddiscoveries.com