As remote work and hybrid meetings continue to shape our professional landscape, the need for high-quality, engaging video conferencing has never been more critical. Traditional digital zoom solutions often fall short, resulting in blurry, pixelated images that can detract from the meeting experience. Enter Visidon AI Upscale, an AI-powered technology designed to work with embedded NPU (Neural Processing Unit) hardware. This cutting-edge solution offers fast, high-quality video upscaling, which significantly enhances the quality of virtual meetings.
Introducing Visidon AI Upscale
Visidon AI Upscale employs advanced AI algorithms to enhance video quality, enabling higher zoom levels without compromising detail or clarity. Unlike conventional digital zoom, which can degrade image quality, Visidon AI Upscale ensures that frames remain sharp and vibrant. This technology is particularly beneficial for video conferencing, where clear visibility of speakers and participants is essential.
Whether it’s autoframing the main speaker, zooming in on individual participants, or creating tiled views of everyone in the room, Visidon AI Upscale ensures that everyone is seen around the virtual table, enhancing engagement and interaction.
Key Features and Benefits
Superior Video Quality: Visidon AI Upscale enhances video quality, allowing for higher zoom levels without losing detail. This is a significant improvement over traditional digital zoom, which often results in grainy images.
Dynamic Face Zoom for People Framing: Automatically frames and zooms in on the current speaker or selected participants, ensuring that remote workers can easily follow the conversation and see facial expressions clearly.
Fast Processing: Designed for embedded NPU hardware, Visidon AI Upscale processes video streams quickly and efficiently, ensuring real-time enhancement without lag.
Tiled Views: Offers the option to zoom in and crop individual participants into tiles, providing a clear view of everyone in the meeting room. This feature enhances the feeling of presence and participation for remote attendees.
Technology Behind Visidon AI Upscale
Visidon AI Upscale is optimized for embedded NPU hardware, designed to run AI algorithms efficiently. This combination of hardware and software ensures that video upscaling is both high-quality and fast, meeting the demands of real-time video conferencing.
Modern smart cameras equipped with high-performance sensors capture detailed video streams, which are then processed by Visidon AI Upscale’s deep learning models. These models are trained on extensive datasets, and they result in a clear and detailed video, even at high zoom levels.
Real-World Applications and Examples
To illustrate the power of Visidon AI Upscale, let’s consider a typical hybrid meeting scenario:
Autoframing the Speaker: When a person is speaking, the camera can automatically zoom in on them, ensuring they are clearly visible to remote participants. The AI ensures that the zoomed image is sharp and detailed, enhancing engagement and communication.
Tiled View of Participants: For a meeting with multiple attendees, the camera can zoom in on each participant and create a tiled view. Each tile is a cropped and zoomed-in view of an individual, allowing remote participants to see everyone clearly, as if they were all seated at the same table.
Comparing AI Upscale with ISP
Image Signal Processing (ISP) has traditionally been used for video enhancement, but it falls short when it comes to significant upscaling. While ISP is effective for basic enhancements like color correction, it lacks the capability to intelligently upscale video without losing quality. Visidon AI Upscale, on the other hand, uses AI to enhance and upscale video by offering a much clearer and more detailed image compared to ISP, especially at higher zoom levels.
Here are some visual examples to demonstrate the difference. The original input is Full HD video stream captured by the Omnivision OV64B sensor:
First, we crop a 360p segment from the Full HD stream and then upscale it to 1080p using Qualcomm Spectra ISP:
As a result, the image becomes pixelated and loses detail. Also, the text on the whiteboard becomes blurry.
Next, we perform the same upscaling with Visidon AI Upscale:
In this case, the image remains more clear and detailed even at higher zoom levels. Also, the text written in light color on the whiteboard stands out more clearly than when processed by the Qualcomm Spectra ISP.
While virtual whiteboards are becoming increasingly popular, traditional whiteboards are still widely used, with many people preferring to handwrite and draw directly on them. This can be problematic in hybrid meetings for clear reasons.
Hand-written text on a whiteboard, video processed by Qualcomm Spectra ISP
The same hand-written text, video processed by Visidon AI Upscale
Conclusion
Visidon AI Upscale is a technology designed to ensure remote participants can fully engage with the meeting as if they were physically present. By combining fast processing with superior video quality, this technology transforms how we experience virtual meetings, making them more inclusive and interactive.
