Abstract: An accelerator includes a memory, a compute zone to receive an encrypted workload downloaded from a tenant application running in a virtual machine on a host computing system attached to the accelerator, and a processor subsystem to execute a cryptographic key exchange protocol with the tenant application to derive a session key for the compute zone and to program the session key into the compute zone. The compute zone is to decrypt the encrypted workload using the session key, receive an encrypted data stream from the tenant application, decrypt the encrypted data stream using the session key, and process the decrypted data stream by executing the workload to produce metadata.

Abstract: A connected classroom system provides for local and remote control and display of media streams. An instructor may, for instance, direct audio/video streams of the instructor to any number of displays and speakers located within a classroom. The system may send and receive control instructions to and from remote classrooms as well, through a network interface. The control instructions may configure any set of presentation devices in any classroom to reproduce any content originating from any source within any classroom. Accordingly, multiple classrooms located in disparate locations may participate in media exchanges arising from any source, including instructors and individual student seating locations within the classrooms.

Abstract: A dynamically created video preview can be provided to a viewer by stitching relevant video clips from a target video based on a viewer profile of the viewer. In various embodiments, a computer receives a request from a viewer to preview a video. The computer can then select one or more clips from the video based on the viewer profile of the viewer. Thereafter, the computer can generate a customized video preview from the one or more selected clips for the viewer based on the viewer profile. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: A connected classroom system provides for local and remote control and display of media streams. An instructor may, for instance, direct audio/video streams of the instructor to any number of displays and speakers located within a classroom. The system may send and receive control instructions to and from remote classrooms as well, through a network interface. The control instructions may configure any set of presentation devices in any classroom to reproduce any content originating from any source within any classroom. Accordingly, multiple classrooms located in disparate locations may participate in media exchanges arising from any source, including instructors and individual student seating locations within the classrooms.

Abstract: A connected classroom system provides for local and remote control and display of media streams. An instructor may, for instance, direct audio/video streams of the instructor to any number of displays and speakers located within a classroom. The system may send and receive control instructions to and from remote classrooms as well, through a network interface. The control instructions may configure any set of presentation devices in any classroom to reproduce any content originating from any source within any classroom. Accordingly, multiple classrooms located in disparate locations may participate in media exchanges arising from any source, including instructors and individual student seating locations within the classrooms.

Abstract: A dynamically created video preview can be provided to a viewer by stitching relevant video clips from a target video based on a viewer profile of the viewer. In various embodiments, a computer receives a request from a viewer to preview a video. The computer can then select one or more clips from the video based on the viewer profile of the viewer. Thereafter, the computer can generate a customized video preview from the one or more selected clips for the viewer based on the viewer profile. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Systems and methods may provide feature matching in object-recognition applications. The systems and methods may determine various features of an object and determine what type of object to which the features correspond. The systems and methods may also detect objects within a database and extract vectors based on unique features of the objects. The extracted vectors may be stored in a memory such as a buffer. The extracted vectors may be used to match against a database of objects of interest or test vectors. Features within the objects may then be quickly and efficiently determined based on the best matches between the extracted vectors and the test vectors, thereby determining suitable best matches while avoiding the necessity to search the full database.

Abstract: A dynamically created video preview can be provided to a viewer by stitching relevant video clips from a target video based on a viewer profile of the viewer. In various embodiments, a computer receives a request from a viewer to preview a video. The computer can then select one or more clips from the video based on the viewer profile of the viewer. Thereafter, the computer can generate a customized video preview from the one or more selected clips for the viewer based on the viewer profile. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Replacing content of a surface in video is described. In one or more embodiments, a surface captured in a scene of video content is replaced with replacement content. As part of doing so, an indication of the surface to be replaced is received. The indication may be received as user input to select the surface for replacement from a frame of video content or as a pattern that can be used to search for the surface in frames of the video content. Once the surface is identified, it is tracked throughout the video content using motion tracking techniques. The motion tracking identifies frames of the video content that include the identified surface as well as locations of surface in the identified frames. Based on the identified frames and locations, the replacement content is incorporated into the video content to replace the surface.

Abstract: Audience segmentation can be based on a viewing angle of a user viewing a video of a multi-angle viewing environment. During playback, a sequence of the user-controlled viewing angles of the video are recorded. The sequence represents the viewing angle of the user at a given point in time. Based on the sequences of several users, a predominant sequence of viewing angles of the video is determined. One or more audience segment tags are assigned to the predominant sequence of viewing angles. During subsequent playbacks of the video, the sequence(s) of user-controlled viewing angles of the video are recorded. The recorded sequence(s) of the subsequent user(s) are compared to the predominant sequence of viewing angles of the video, and the subsequent user(s) are assigned to an audience segment based on the comparison and the corresponding audience segment tags.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for adjusting impression inventory within overlapping packages and based on impression inventory reservations. The systems and methods receive attributes of a first package and a second package to create impression inventories for the first package and the second package. Additionally, the systems and methods determine overlap between the impression inventory of the first package and the impression inventory of the second package. Moreover, upon receiving an inventory reservation request, the systems and methods adjust, based on the reservation request, the impression inventories of both the first package and the second package.

Abstract: An intelligent information delivery system facilitates dynamic interaction with the user's environment, and in certain environments may provide or support digital governance. The intelligent delivery system may make use of a distributed beacon network to accurately determine the user's location within an environment, which may then be leveraged to deliver relevant content to the user. The intelligent delivery system may also facilitate complex interactions between a user of the system and the user's environment.

Abstract: Flood-fill techniques and architecture are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, the architecture comprises a hardware primitive with a software interface which collectively allow for both data-based and task-based parallelism in executing a flood-fill process. The hardware primitive is defined to do the flood-fill function and is scalable and may be implemented with a bitwise definition that can be tuned to meet power/performance targets, in some embodiments. In executing a flood-fill operation, and in accordance with an example embodiment, the software interface produces parallel threads and issues them to processing elements, such that each of the threads can run independently until done. Each processing element in turn accesses a flood-fill hardware primitive, each of which is configured to flood a seed inside an N×M image block. In some cases, processing element commands to the flood-fill hardware primitive(s) can be queued and acted upon pursuant to an arbitration scheme.

Abstract: Methods and systems may synchronize workloads across local thread groups. The methods and systems may provide for receiving, at a graphics processor, a workload from a host processor and receiving, at a plurality of processing elements, a plurality of threads that from one or more local thread groups. Additionally, the processing of the workload may be synchronized across the one or more thread groups. In one example, the global barrier determines that all threads across the thread groups have been completed without polling.

Abstract: Replacing content of a surface in video is described. In one or more embodiments, a surface captured in a scene of video content is replaced with replacement content. As part of doing so, an indication of the surface to be replaced is received. The indication may be received as user input to select the surface for replacement from a frame of video content or as a pattern that can be used to search for the surface in frames of the video content. Once the surface is identified, it is tracked throughout the video content using motion tracking techniques. The motion tracking identifies frames of the video content that include the identified surface as well as locations of surface in the identified frames. Based on the identified frames and locations, the replacement content is incorporated into the video content to replace the surface.

Abstract: Audience segmentation can be based on a viewing angle of a user viewing a video of a multi-angle viewing environment. During playback, a sequence of the user-controlled viewing angles of the video are recorded. The sequence represents the viewing angle of the user at a given point in time. Based on the sequences of several users, a predominant sequence of viewing angles of the video is determined. One or more audience segment tags are assigned to the predominant sequence of viewing angles. During subsequent playbacks of the video, the sequence(s) of user-controlled viewing angles of the video are recorded. The recorded sequence(s) of the subsequent user(s) are compared to the predominant sequence of viewing angles of the video, and the subsequent user(s) are assigned to an audience segment based on the comparison and the corresponding audience segment tags.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that provide dynamic creative optimization for video advertisements. In certain embodiments, a content creation system receives a request for a video advertisement from a remote computing system. The request represents attributes of a specific recipient. To generate the video advertisement, the content creation system accesses a collection of assets, such as templates and video elements, from which video content can be generated. The content creation system selects a subset of assets from the collection and combines some or all of the selected subset of assets into a composite content file. The content creation system generates (or causes another system to generate) the requested electronic video advertisement or other video content from the composite content file. The content creation system provides the generated video advertisement or other video content in response to the request that was received from the remote computing system.

Abstract: A dynamically created video preview can be provided to a viewer by stitching relevant video clips from a target video based on a viewer profile of the viewer. In various embodiments, a computer receives a request from a viewer to preview a video. The computer can then select one or more clips from the video based on the viewer profile of the viewer. Thereafter, the computer can generate a customized video preview from the one or more selected clips for the viewer based on the viewer profile. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Methods and systems may provide for receiving, at a graphics processor, a workload from a host processor and using a kernel on the graphics processor to issue a thread group for execution of the workload on the graphics processor. Additionally, one or more coherency messages may be initiated, by the graphics processor, in response to a thread-related condition of one or more caches on the graphics processor. In one example, the thread-related condition is associated with the execution of the workload on the graphics processor and indicates that the one or more caches on the graphics processor are not coherent with a system memory associated with the host processor.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and apparatus for improving viewer engagement in video advertising. The method comprises configuring a plurality of skip options for presentation in advertising content, such that each skip option of the plurality of skip options is presented in series for a limited duration during display of the advertising content until a presented one of the skip options is selected.