Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
Cameras attached to small quadrotor aircraft are rapidly becoming a ubiquitous tool for cinematographers, enabling dynamic camera movements through 3D environments. Currently, professionals use these cameras by flying quadrotors manually, a process which requires much skill and dexterity. In this paper, we investigate the needs of quadrotor cinematographers, and build a tool to support video capture using quadrotor-based camera systems. We begin by conducting semi-structured interviews with professional photographers and videographers, from which we extract a set of design principles. We present a tool based on these principles for designing and autonomously executing quadrotor-based camera shots. Our tool enables users to: (1) specify shots visually using keyframes; (2) preview the resulting shots in a virtual environment; (3) precisely control the timing of shots using easing curves; and (4) capture the resulting shots in the real world with a single button click using commercially available quadrotors. We evaluate our tool in a user study with novice and expert cinematographers. We show that our tool makes it possible for novices and experts to design compelling and challenging shots, and capture them fully autonomously. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2015 | 10.1145/2816795.2818106 | ACM Transactions on Graphics |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
robotics,quadrotors,camera animation | Design elements and principles,Computer vision,Video capture,Virtual machine,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Robotics | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
34 | 6 | 0730-0301 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
19 | 0.86 | 12 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niels Joubert | 1 | 150 | 6.96 |
| Mike Roberts | 2 | 42 | 2.33 |
| Anh Truong | 3 | 147 | 11.84 |
| Floraine Berthouzoz | 4 | 243 | 12.65 |
| Pat Hanrahan | 5 | 11081 | 1148.97 |