ADJUSTING VIDEO LAYOUT

1 . A method for providing a context aware video presentation for a video conference room comprising one or more video cameras and a video conference system, said method comprising:

for each of said one or more video cameras, capturing a camera view;

for each camera view, extracting one or more of a plurality of attention locations;

for each camera view, extracting one or more of a plurality of attention vectors;

scoring said one or more extracted attention locations;

adjusting said scored one or more extracted attention locations by said extracted one or more attention vector;

selecting one or more of said adjusted scored one or more extracted attention locations; and

optimizing the camera view at said selected one or more adjusted locations.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said process of extracting one or more of a plurality of attention locations and said process of extracting one or more of a plurality of attention vectors is performed at the same time.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said plurality of attention locations comprises:

a location of movement in the camera view;

a location of conference participants in the camera view;

a location of faces in the camera view;

changes in foreground objects; and

predefined room locations.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein said changes in foreground objects comprises identifying objects that hide normal room background.

5 . The method of claim 3 , wherein said location of faces in the field of view comprises emotion classification, engagement classification and lip movement.

6 . The method of claim 3 , wherein said predefined room locations comprise locations including white boards, interactive boards, projector screens, audience microphones and document camera tables.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said optimizing the camera view comprises adjusting P-T-Z settings of the camera at said selected locations to optimize the composition of a scene within a field of view in order to contain all attraction locations of said camera in the camera view.

8 . The method of claim 3 , wherein:

said changes in foreground objects comprises identifying objects that hide normal room background;

said location of faces in the camera view comprises emotion classification, engagement classification and lip movement; and

said predefined room locations comprise locations including white boards, interactive boards, projector screens, audience microphones and document camera tables.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein said attention vectors comprise one or more direction vectors for participants in the camera view and participant face information.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein said one or more direction vectors for participants in the camera view comprise posture, gestures, pointing direction and movement vectors.

11 . The method of claim 9 , wherein said participant face information comprises a gaze vector and face orientation.

12 . A system for providing a context aware video presentation for a video conference room, said system comprising:

a plurality of video cameras for providing video feeds to the video conferencing system; and

a video conferencing system enabled to

i) capture a camera view for each of said plurality of video cameras;

ii) extract a plurality of attention locations for each camera view;

iii) extract a plurality of attention vectors for each camera view;

iv) score said extracted attention locations;

v) adjust said scored extracted attention locations by said extracted plurality of attention vectors;

vi) select at least one of said plurality of adjusted attention locations; and

vii) optimize said camera view at said adjusted attention location.

13 . The system of claim 12 , wherein said optimization of said camera comprises adjustment of P-T-Z settings of said selected camera to optimize the composition of a scene within a field of view in order to contain all attraction locations of said camera in the camera view.

14 . The system of claim 12 , wherein said attention vectors comprise one or more direction vectors for participants in said camera view and participant face information.

15 . The system of claim 14 , wherein said one or more direction vectors for participants in the camera view comprise posture, gestures, pointing direction and movement vectors.

16 . The system of claim 12 , wherein said plurality of attention locations comprises:

a location of movement in the camera view;

a location of conference participants in the camera view;

a location of faces in the camera view;

changes in foreground objects; and

predefined room locations.