Apple Inc.

Xiaoxia Sun

Hsi-Jung Wu

Xiaosong Zhou

Dazhong Zhang

Jiefu Zhai

Christopher M Garrido

Ke Zhang

Ian J Baird

Johnny Trenh

Sarah K Herrlinger

Video object and keypoint location detection techniques are presented. The system includes a detection system for generation locations of an object's keypoints along with probabilities associated with the locations, and a stability system for stabilizing keypoint locations of the detected objects. In some aspects, the generated probabilities are two-dimensional array correspond locations within input images, and stability system fits the generated probabilities to a two-dimensional probability distribution function.

Object and keypoint detection system with low spatial jitter, low latency and low power usage

Techniques are presented for managing for visual prominence of participants in a video conference, including conferences where participants communicate visually, such as with sign language. According to these techniques, a visual prominence indication of a participant in a video conference may be estimated, a video stream of the participant may be encoded, and the encoded video stream may be transmitted along with an indication of the estimated visual prominence to a receiving device in the video conference.

Gesture and prominence in video conferencing

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Xiaoxia Sun