Title
CineMPC: Controlling Camera Intrinsics and Extrinsics for Autonomous Cinematography
Abstract
We present CineMPC, an algorithm to autonomously control a UAV-borne video camera in a nonlinear Model Predicted Control (MPC) loop. CineMPC controls both the position and orientation of the camera-the camera extrinsics-as well as the lens focal length, focal distance, and aperture-the camera intrinsics. While some existing solutions autonomously control the position and orientation of the camera, no existing solutions also control the intrinsic parameters, which are essential tools for rich cinematographic expression. The intrinsic parameters control the parts of the scene that are focused or blurred, the viewers' perception of depth in the scene and the position of the targets in the image. CineMPC closes the loop from camera images to UAV trajectory and lens parameters in order to follow the desired relative trajectory and image composition as the targets move through the scene. Experiments using a photo-realistic environment demon-strate the capabilities of the proposed control framework to successfully achieve a full array of cinematographic effects not possible without full camera control.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811827
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
2022
1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pueyo Pablo100.68
Eduardo Montijano221422.27
Murillo, A.C.3121.62
Mac Schwager493072.33