Presenter Camera is a desktop application designed to improve the quality of video seen by remote attendees of a presentation.
The Problem
Remote meetings are becoming more prolific in the modern workplace. A common scenario is to broadcast a presentation to many people who will be viewing the presentation live online. Presentation/conference rooms often lack the expensive high dynamic range cameras required for capturing high quality video. Because of this, any digital content being displayed on a projection screen or large display will undoubtedly be of poor quality for remote attendees. This low quality is caused by the minimal luminosity range found in most cameras as well as environmental distortions such as poor lighting or glare.
Current common methods for addressing this problem are:
- Screen Sharing: Skype and Skype for Business, as well as other conferencing software, support sharing of a screen or uploading a slide deck. While the digital content is presented to online attendees in high quality, the speaker giving the presentation cannot be seen and any contextual signals given by the speaker (i.e. pointing, facial expressions, body language) are lost.
- Picture and Picture: This method attempts to address the problems of screen sharing by providing a video of the speaker. The video of the speaker, along with the digital content, are both broadcasted. While this addresses the issue of the speaker being lost, the two videos are disjointed and is not a natural viewing experience.
Our Solution
We propose a new solution to this problem. Presenter Camera corrects the image on the display medium as seen from the imaging device, currently Presenter Camera only supports the Kinect One. This is achieved as follows:
- The high resolution digital content is captured from the computer that is displaying it.
- The speaker is segmented from the background in real time.
- The digital content captured in step 1 is warped to fit the display medium as seen from the imaging device.
- The speaker is composited back into the video feed as a transparent overlay as to not block any digital content.
- The composited image is sent to the remote attendees through a virtual camera that can interface to Skype and Skype for Business as well as any software that uses a web-camera.
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