Systems and methods for enhancing teleconferencing collaboration

An auto director apparatus, operating at a local conference site, for emulating behavior of a human video director during a video teleconference between a plurality of conference sites, comprising any of:

• means for automatically selecting, from among one or more local video camera feeds and other local video inputs, an outbound video signal for transmission to remote video conferencing sites;
• means for automatically selecting, from among one or more inbound video signals received from remote sites, a primary video signal for display on a primary display at said local conference site;
• and
• means for automatically selecting, from among said plurality of local video camera feeds, said local video inputs, and said inbound video signals, one or more supplementary video signals for display on one or more supplementary displays,
• wherein at least one of said means for automatically selecting responds to both of audio signals obtained from one or more microphones at one or more conference sites and to content of said audio signals.