Headquartered in Burlingame, California, MotionDSP is a leading innovator in advanced, GPU-accelerated image processing software. MotionDSP’s “Ikena” family of products dramatically improve the quality of video captured by a wide range of sources--from surveillance cameras to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), in law enforcement, commercial security, and military applications. MotionDSP’s solutions support operational deployments within the US Department of Defense and National Intelligence agencies, and its customers also include the US Air Force, Navy, US intelligence, some of the world’s leading video forensic labs such as the US Secret Service, NCIS, and the London Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard).
Leadership
Dr. Sean Varah, Chief Executive Officer/Founder
Dr. Varah’s background includes over 15 years of investment and start-up experience, including Sony Ventures, Q Media Partners, and Covad Communications. While at Sony Ventures, he led the Series A investment and served as board director for Keyhole.com, later acquired by Google (basis for Google Earth). Dr. Varah earned a B.A. from Stanford University and a Doctorate from Columbia University.
Dr. Nikola Bozinovic, Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Bozinovic is an award-winning expert in the area of signal processing, image and video analysis, and video compression. Prior to establishing MotionDSP’s engineering department, Dr. Bozinovic was a senior software engineer at Veodia, a video streaming and distribution company, and a research scientist at Microsoft. Dr. Bozinovic is an active academic and industry speaker, and both writes and reviews journal and conference papers. His publications include a book chapter on computational super-resolution "Super-Resolution Imaging: Digital Imaging and Computer Vision” and more than a dozen journal and conference papers. Dr. Bozinovic earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Boston University, where he was a Dean's Fellow.
Investors
Testimonials
- Audio Video Forensic Labs: "The issues of video noise can be devastating to recovering detail needed for a forensics case or homeland security analysis. MotionDSP's Ikena technology is the best I have used in 27 years on the job." Robert Sanderson, President
- InQTel: "MotionDSP's digital video technology has proven itself to be the gold standard in both quality and scalability, and will radically enhance the way any organization-commercial or government-processes video images." Troy M. Pearsall, Executive Vice President of Technology Transfer, InQTel.