Deconstructing Maxine, Nvidia's AI-powered video-conferencing technology

This article is part of "Deconstructing artificial intelligence," a series of posts that explore the details of how AI applications work. One of the things that caught my eye at Nvidia's flagship event, the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), was Maxine, a platform that leverages artificial intelligence to improve the quality and experience of video-conferencing applications in real-time. Maxine used deep learning for resolution improvement, background noise reduction, video compression, face alignment, and real-time translation and transcription. In this post, which marks the first installation of our "deconstructing artificial intelligence" series, we will take a look at how some of these features work and how they tie-in with AI research done at Nvidia. We'll also explore the pending issues and the possible business model for Nvidia's AI-powered video-conferencing platform.