Voice processing has been an attractive filed for research and experiments, and our project (Conf-Cam) is one of our experiments in this field. The project aims to construct a smart conference room in especially when it comes to its sound system. The idea is to automate the movement of a camera centralized in the middle of the room in response to the speaker voice. The project tries to achieve satisfying results, and examine the various difficulties that student would find in this field of projects.
The project idea is simple, it aims to make it easier for people to manage video conferences. It is supposed that a camera is placed somewhere in the middle of the conference room. The camera will be connected to three microphones within 50 cm around the camera in a triangular way. These microphones will be sensitive to the human voice, and will be connected to a microcontroller (PIC).
The microcontroller will process the data received by the microphones and determine the direction the voice came from, this will be sufficient for the PIC to give orders to stepper motor connected to it and to the base of the camera and rotates it into the right direction. Also a wireless modules is connected to the system to let the conference manager to manually rotate the camera.