Paper Info
Title
The director's lens: an intelligent assistant for virtual cinematography
Abstract
We present the Director's Lens, an intelligent interactive assistant for crafting virtual cinematography using a motion-tracked hand-held device that can be aimed like a real camera. The system employs an intelligent cinematography engine that can compute, at the request of the filmmaker, a set of suitable camera placements for starting a shot. These suggestions represent semantically and cinematically distinct choices for visualizing the current narrative. In computing suggestions, the system considers established cinema conventions of continuity and composition along with the filmmaker's previous selected suggestions, and also his or her manually crafted camera compositions, by a machine learning component that adapts shot editing preferences from user-created camera edits. The result is a novel workflow based on interactive collaboration of human creativity with automated intelligence that enables efficient exploration of a wide range of cinematographic possibilities, and rapid production of computer-generated animated movies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2072298.2072341
ACM Multimedia 2001
Keywords
Field
DocType
suitable camera placement,real camera,automated intelligence,user-created camera edit,camera composition,intelligent assistant,intelligent interactive assistant,intelligent cinematography engine,interactive collaboration,virtual cinematography,adapts shot editing preference,motion tracking,machine learning
Computer vision,Movie theater,Computer science,Narrative,Virtual cinematography,Artificial intelligence,Cinematography,Creativity,Multimedia,Workflow,Film director
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
22
1.15
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christophe Lino1696.96
Marc Christie231624.38
Roberto Ranon339233.19
William Bares4363.47