Abe Davis Biography

Abe Davis is a computer engineer who specializes in the extraction of audio. Davis’ methods can even extract audio from silent digital videos, regardless of which kind of device the video was shot with. Davis is unique among technology speakers in that he is both a MIT PhD student and a hip hop artist. Davis calls his creation the visual microphone, and his field computer vision.

In 2014, Davis created and debuted the visual microphone. The instrument works by utilizing an algorithm that can sample sympathetic vibrations. By sampling vibrations of objects as mundane as a book bag from visual footage, the visual microphone can then transduce them into audio tracks that are audible and fit with the corresponding video. Davis has been a technology speaker at a number of audio conferences.

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