Vertigo Focus
Dev tools
video codec
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
19 positive, 29 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 20 critical, out of 70 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Idea: 9 for, 9 againstPerformance: 3 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Impressive detail and quality of face reconstruction
From 1 comment
I bit my tongue off at one point in my life (jumped from a high height and my knee hit my chin as I was screaming). The fact that it captures most of the details of the scar…
withinboredom on HN
Objections
Glasses show banding artifacts
From 1 comment
I bit my tongue off at one point in my life (jumped from a high height and my knee hit my chin as I was screaming). The fact that it captures most of the details of the scar…
withinboredom on HN
App crashes on older iPhone
From 1 comment
Tried it out on my phone, app crashes every time I press "go to room". I'm using iPhone SE from 2016 so maybe my phone is too old for the GPU features? Alas! Was looking forward…
andai on HN
UI looks like a toy app
From 1 comment
Tried it out on my phone, app crashes every time I press "go to room". I'm using iPhone SE from 2016 so maybe my phone is too old for the GPU features? Alas! Was looking forward…
andai on HN
Competing with hardware H264/H265 is hard on energy
From 1 comment
Well done for putting it out there! We've worked on this about 3 years ago, plus background removal (realtime alpha-matting still not really done well by anyone), portrait…
akrymski on HN
Requests
Higher frame rate such as 60 fps
From 1 comment
Firstly, this is pretty awesome, love it. I have a few questions: * I applaud the work to have it run on tiny-bandwidths, how hard would it be to up the frame-rate to 60? * How…
moritonal on HN
Open-source the project
From 1 comment
WOW. This is amazing. I really believe your project can be game changing for the video-call industry. Have you considered entering into the YC Program? I think it could be an…
syrusakbary on HN
Add neural compression indicator
From 1 comment
Awesome! A thought: now that neural compression is becoming widespread, it could be a good idea to put some kind of indicator or watermark stating the compression is neural…
gnramires on HN
Questions
How are network weight versions handled across users
From 1 comment
How do you deal with network weights versioning? I assume the version that does the compressing and decompressing needs to match? And if you release an update and half the users…
londons_explore on HN
Does it show wrong faces through misidentification
From 1 comment
Does it have any interesting "nonlinear" effects where it can show an entirely different face (the wrong face) based on misidentification or even adversary input? These kinds of…
kzrdude on HN
Alternatives named
NVIDIA Maxine and AI video compression
From 2 comments
This looks very similar to nVidia's method. Vertigo's website says this is patented, does nVidia have prior art here? https://developer.nvidia.com/ai-video-compression
Cadwhisker on HNNice work, but you might find it's not super unique - video codec people have been thinking about how to apply face recognition ML tech to this use case for 5+ years. For…
nicr_22 on HN
Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, FaceTime
From 2 comments
- The maker's post
In general, H265 is better than H264, but when you really squeeze it it seems to fall over its own feet. This is measured against ffmpeg's x265 implementation, the…
jacobgorm on HN