Microsoft built its own smart AI features and hardware.
“From day one of Surface Hub 2, we knew we were going to make our cameras smart,” explains Steven Bathiche, who oversees all hardware innovation for Microsoft devices, in an interview withdebuted last week, offering automatic reframing without the warping and distortions you might typically see on other conference room cameras.
Large devices like the 85-inch Surface Hub 2 presented challenges for capturing everyone in a meeting room with a traditional camera. “We needed a camera to handle bigger rooms,” says Bathiche, so Microsoft got to work. “We designed an 11 element, completely glass lens with super sharp focus and basically close to the refraction limits,” explains Bathiche. Behind the lens is a 12-megapixel sensor with an f/1.8 aperture that all generates the 4K cropped image. “The actual lens is a 184-degree field of view, so the camera can look behind itself.”All of this hardware is nothing without the AI models that power the Surface Smart Camera, though.
to this project, which include a committee and set of tools to ensure the fairness and inclusiveness of AI.“If you look at our data set, it’s absolutely amazing across the board in terms of disparity between the different groups: race, gender, skin tone, hair styles, etc,” explains Bathiche. “I think one of the things that’s built into the camera that people might not see on the box is that robustness and inclusiveness that the model has.
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