How a Conference Room Broke Our Computer Vision Assumptions

Event recording sounds like a solved problem. It isn't. I'll walk through how we evolved NATE, SlidesLive's autonomous recording system, from basic face detection to a multimodal system that fuses video and audio to do what a full production crew would: track speakers, switch cameras, monitor quality, and secure the recording. I'll cover the architecture, failed experiments, tuning process, and what 100,000 recorded talks taught us about building systems that work when there's no second take.