Paper Info
Title
Towards a Drone Cinematographer: Guiding Quadrotor Cameras using Visual Composition Principles.
Abstract
We present a system to capture video footage of human subjects in the real world. Our system leverages a quadrotor camera to automatically capture well-composed video of two subjects. Subjects are tracked in a large-scale outdoor environment using RTK GPS and IMU sensors. Then, given the tracked state of our subjects, our system automatically computes static shots based on well-established visual composition principles and canonical shots from cinematography literature. To transition between these static shots, we calculate feasible, safe, and visually pleasing transitions using a novel real-time trajectory planning algorithm. We evaluate the performance of our tracking system, and experimentally show that RTK GPS significantly outperforms conventional GPS in capturing a variety of canonical shots. Lastly, we demonstrate our system guiding a consumer quadrotor camera autonomously capturing footage of two subjects in a variety of use cases. This is the first end-to-end system that enables people to leverage the mobility of quadrotors, as well as the knowledge of expert filmmakers, to autonomously capture high-quality footage of people in the real world.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Graphics
Computer vision,Use case,Computer science,Tracking system,Real Time Kinematic,Global Positioning System,Inertial measurement unit,Drone,Artificial intelligence,Cinematography,Trajectory planning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1610.01691
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
17
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Niels Joubert11506.96
L. E. Jane2786.40
Dan B. Goldman3232185.23
Floraine Berthouzoz424312.65
Mike Roberts5121.03
James A. Landay67457653.08
Pat Hanrahan7110811148.97