Compressed video data made the AI model more robust, not less.
Beamr fine-tuned Depth Anything V2 on AV footage compressed with content-adaptive compression (patented CABR).
The result:
-> 35.2% smaller than baseline
-> 30.7% lower depth estimation error on safety-critical objects, like pedestrians and motorcyclists (VRUs)
-> 16.0% lower error, aggregated
The industry has treated compression as a tradeoff. CABR-compressed footage made the model more resilient to compression, while freeing storage, networking, and infrastructure capacity.
Compression became an asset.
Press release:
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For full methodology and results:
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