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Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2008 Zhengyou Zhang Principal Researcher Microsoft Research A videoconferencing experience that creates the illusion that the remote participants are in the same room with you. - Wainhouse Research 2007 Cisco Telepresence $299k HP Halo $425k + $18k/mo Tandberg Experia $225k Polycom RPX210M $269k + $18.5k/mo Economic globalization and workforce mobilization Customer Pains Product cycles dependent on remote teams Increased travel time and costs Energy consumption, CO2 production Bandwidth & Hardware Costs 7-38-55% rule for communicating feelings and altitudes 7%: Verbal (Words, What you say) 38%: Vocal (Tone of voice, How you say them) 55%: Visual (Gaze, Facial expression, Body language) Replicate experience people enjoy in face-to-face meeting Dedicated camera-display-speaker for remote stand-in Tailored to a single person Correct spatial cues Prototypes Full Mesh Geometry Make it more immersive? Design user interface for both audio-visual and data? Adapt to network conditions? Combine HW & SW for better capture and rendering? … Provide virtual seating Improve understanding by remote participants Decrease cognitive load (cocktail party effect) L R Listener sorry, can’t demo in this room… Computer-controllable lighting system Automatically adjust light intensity based on video analysis Skin tone model learned from hundreds of celebrity images Optimization of face image quality with physical parameters in the loop Zicheng Liu Rajesh Hegde Qin Cai Cha Zhang Sasa Junuzovic Christian Huitema Jayman Dalal Wanghong Yuan © 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
