Automated Cinematography with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
This addresses the need for automated cinematography tools in the cinema industry using drones, but it is incremental as it adapts existing techniques.
The paper tackled the problem of producing cinematographic camera motion in real-time for shooting with UAVs, and the result was a tool capable of capturing live movie scenes involving one or two moving actors.
The rise of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and their increasing use in the cinema industry calls for the creation of dedicated tools. Though there is a range of techniques to automatically control drones for a variety of applications, none have considered the problem of producing cinematographic camera motion in real-time for shooting purposes. In this paper we present our approach to UAV navigation for autonomous cinematography. The contributions of this research are twofold: (i) we adapt virtual camera control techniques to UAV navigation; (ii) we introduce a drone-independent platform for high-level user interactions that integrates cinematographic knowledge. The results presented in this paper demonstrate the capacities of our tool to capture live movie scenes involving one or two moving actors.