Background Features in Google Meet, powered by Web ML

368 · Google AI Research · Oct. 30, 2020, 4:24 p.m.
Posted by Tingbo Hou and Tyler Mullen, Software Engineers, Google Research Video conferencing is becoming ever more critical in people's work and personal lives. Improving that experience with privacy enhancements or fun visual touches can help center our focus on the meeting itself. As part of this goal, we recently announced ways to blur and replace your background in Google Meet, which use machine learning (ML) to better highlight participants regardless of their surroundings. Whereas other s...