Virtual Avatar Model Generation for Video Conferencing Fatigue
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Solution Overview
Problem
Video conferencing technologies lead to meeting fatigue due to prolonged camera usage, eye contact, and reduced mobility, resulting in decreased user engagement and productivity.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a virtual avatar model system that processes video conference recordings to generate a generic template model, selecting suitable user image information, and creating a virtual avatar to replace live video images, reducing the need for cumbersome onboarding processes and allowing users to be more mobile during sessions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If live video images are used during video conference sessions, then user identity and real-time interaction are maintained, but meeting fatigue increases and user engagement decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual avatar models that are digital copies or representations of users, which can be used in place of live video images during video conference sessions. These avatars replicate user identity and appearance while eliminating the harmful effects of prolonged camera exposure, thus reducing meeting fatigue and maintaining engagement.
2Ease of manufacture
If virtual avatar models are generated using existing video conference recordings, then onboarding complexity is reduced and user accessibility is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically processing video conference recordings that users have already created during normal usage. Instead of requiring users to perform new actions during onboarding, the system pre-processes existing recording data to generate virtual avatar models, thereby reducing onboarding complexity while distributing processing over time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically generating virtual avatar models from users' own video conference recordings without requiring user intervention or participation in separate onboarding processes. Users simply need to have participated in video conference sessions, and the system autonomously creates their avatar models from that data.
3Ease of operation
If virtual avatar models are implemented in video conference sessions, then meeting fatigue is reduced and user mobility is improved, but system complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual avatar model system is designed to be universally applicable across different video conference platforms and sessions. By creating a multi-functional framework that can integrate with various existing video conference systems, the patent reduces the perceived complexity for end users while maintaining flexibility across different use cases and platforms.
Data Source
AI summary
An exemplary method includes processing, by a virtual avatar processing system, a plurality of video conference recordings generated by a video conference platform to select user image information associated with a plurality of users that participated in video conference sessions represented in the plurality of video conference recordings. The exemplary method further includes generating, based on the user image information, a template model that is generic to a plurality of users, selecting, from the user image information and based on predefined selection criteria, video frames that depict a user included in the plurality of users, and generating a virtual avatar model of the user by applying the selected video frames to the template model. A visual representation of the virtual avatar model may be configured to be used in future video conference sessions in place of a live video image of the user.