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Future-Proof Meetings: The Rise of Intelligent AI in Video Smart Conferencing

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To help employees collaborate across different locations and platforms, businesses need to invest in the innovations that will keep communication thriving.

 

For many, the key is adopting intelligent video solutions (IVS)—tools that produce high-quality video for collaboration across devices and platforms—and intelligent audio solutions, which help ensure all sounds and recordings are clear and easy to understand. These technologies use AI, cloud tools, and advanced analytics to enhance video experiences and improve productivity.

They offer a range of features that benefits several industries, including:

  • Security: monitoring activity across locations with enhanced visuals and analytics.
  • Manufacturing: maintaining quality assurance and improving inspections.
  • Retail: optimizing and managing spaces.
  • Travel: enhancing traveler experiences by monitoring operations.
  • Media and entertainment: managing crowd flow and capturing high-quality material for future content.
  • Workplace safety: ensuring locations follow safety and compliance regulations.
  • Smart conferencing: improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and engagement of remote meetings, calls, and events with audio, video, and data tools.

Read below to learn how intelligent video and audio technology works, explore key features and benefits, and uncover why your business should consider adopting smart conferencing solutions.

What is intelligent video?

Intelligent video technology uses AI to enhance video quality, perform activities, and deliver analytics to help businesses do more with their videos. Intelligent video solutions are also referred to as artificial intelligence video, AI video, and smart video conferencing—as different tools and features can focus on specific activities.

 

Video intelligence solutions can identify objects, people, and other elements in a video stream with greater accuracy and speed than traditional video solutions. This technology improves video conferencing quality by enhancing color and increasing resolution.
 

By leveraging AI, intelligent video solutions can provide more accurate and actionable insights, leading to better decision-making and improved outcomes.

How does intelligent video technology work?

Intelligent video technology uses hardware, software, and AI models to perform tasks automatically. In addition to processing, editing, and storing videos and images, intelligent video solutions can capture and decipher content from events, calls, and meetings—plus, they can generate useful information like analytics and captions.

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IVS reduces the amount of time businesses need to build highlight reels, add words to videos, and identify clips for new content. Intelligent video technology is also useful for scaling businesses with several physical locations—and it even helps improve the proactivity of company security systems. IVS can track objects and people, find important information, enhance images, and detect specific activities. Then, these solutions can trigger alerts and reports that help teams access and use important information faster.

What are the benefits and features of intelligent video for smart video conferencing?

Intelligent video solutions help organizations improve video quality to facilitate effortless collaboration in real time. Additionally, IVS can pull insights from meetings to draft emails, invites, and tasks to keep communication moving forward.

They offer a range of features to improve meeting experiences and engagement, including:

 

  • Enhanced video: IVS helps provide high-definition video and audio, along with capabilities to reduce background noise and improve lighting to create more immersive, engaging, and easy-to-follow experiences.
  • Facial and object recognition: Tools like Microsoft Teams allow employees to use avatars to capture body language and facial expression. This, and other facial and object recognition technology are shown to support new levels of inclusivity, representation, and personalization that employees respond positively to. 
  • Blur and augmented background application: Technology to blur backgrounds improves employee’s focus by reducing the amount of distractions. Also, helpful features like a mute button quickly cut down on outside noise. These tools allow everyone to remain focused in the meetings, and gives employees flexibility to work where they need to, maintain privacy, and stay engaged.
  • Accessibility: IVS features include closed captioning, sign language interpretation, and audio descriptions to ensure that everyone has what they need to participate fully and collaborate effectively.

 

By using intelligent video technology for smart conferencing, you can create more engaging, productive, and collaborative meetings that ultimately drive better business outcomes.

Support communication and collaboration with smart conferencing solutions

The dynamics in business environments are changing with opportunities to work from anywhere and the need for rapid growth. It’s important to have the right tools to ensure your employees are engaged and connected wherever they are. With video intelligence solutions, your employees can focus on their tasks, collaborate more effectively, and get the most out of video content across your organization.

Learn more about intelligent video technology from Microsoft:

 

Other Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What is AI video?

 

AI video, also known as artificial intelligence video or smart video conferencing, is a combination of video technologies that automate tasks, deliver analytics, and enhance video quality to help businesses be more efficient, strategic, and collaborative.

 

What are the three types of video conferencing?

 

The three types of video conferencing are: 

  • Point-to-point video conferencing: A video conference between two people or two locations. This is the simplest form, and recommended for one-on-one meetings or interviews.
  • Multipoint video conferencing: A video conference involving three or more locations—ideal for team meetings, webinars, and training sessions.
  • Streaming video conferencing: A video conference that is broadcast live over the internet, often used for large events like conferences, seminars, and product launches.

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