{"id":114057,"date":"2020-10-09T03:47:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T10:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nvidia-uses-ai-to-slash-bandwidth-on-video-calls"},"modified":"2020-10-09T03:47:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T10:47:50","slug":"nvidia-uses-ai-to-slash-bandwidth-on-video-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/nvidia-uses-ai-to-slash-bandwidth-on-video-calls","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NqmMnjJ6GEg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What the researchers have achieved has remarkable results: by replacing the traditional h.264 video codec with a neural network, they have managed to reduce the required bandwidth for a video call by an order of magnitude. In one example, the required data rate fell from 97.28 KB\/frame to a measly 0.1165 KB\/frame \u2014 a reduction to 0.1% of required bandwidth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/maxine?ncid=so-yout-26905#cid=dl13_so-yout_en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\">NVIDIA Research<\/a> has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the researchers have achieved has remarkable results: by replacing the traditional h.264 video codec with a neural network, they have managed to reduce the required bandwidth for a video call by an order of magnitude. In one example, the required data rate fell from 97.28 KB\/frame to a measly 0.1165 KB\/frame \u2014 a reduction [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}