Automatic program production using network-connected robot cameras

Tsuda, Toshitaka; Hayakeyama, Y.; Yoshimura, Shinichi; Kato, Daisuke

doi:10.1109/iros.2003.1250638

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“…Studies have already been conducted in the automatic shooting of TV programs, university lectures, and video conferences [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. References [2][3][4][5] tried to shoot discussion scenes automatically.…”

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“…References [2][3][4][5] tried to shoot discussion scenes automatically. In references [4][5], the next shot shown is automatically determined by using probabilities based on who speaks and what shot is shown.…”

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“…Whereas each camera continues to shoot the same subject in reference [3], a cameraman will change shots depending on the program situation. In reference [2], each robot camera automatically determines the shot in accordance with fixed rules on the condition the number of participants and the appearance of the studio set are fixed. The drawback with this approach is that conditions vary from program to program, so this method isn't easy to adapt to many programs.…”

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<title>Method of shot determination in a robot camera cooperative shooting system</title>

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We are building a program-production system employing multiple robot cameras as a new program-production support technology. In this system, the robot cameras are automatically controlled in accordance with shooting rules that specify the relationship between changes in the program situation and the shots taken by individual cameras, but studio layout elements, such as the number of participants and the position in which flip-cards are displayed, are different for each program. For this reason, production staff must reset shooting rules for every program, and this operation is extremely burdensome in the limited preparation time available. We therefore devised a method of automatically generating shooting rules through simple information input based on analysis of the shooting methods of cameramen, and have tested the validity of this method in simulation tests. Moreover, we built a program-production system in which robot cameras are connected via a network to various sensors that we developed to detect changes in the program situation, and we evaluated the system by conducting program shooting experiments whose subject is engaged in actual TV program production.

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“…We are currently researching "intelligent" robot cameras [1]- [5] that will be part of efficient production systems for a diverse range of video contents. These robot cameras will be able to automatically frame and shoot scenes in a naturalistic manner; that is, they will shoot like professional camera operators, and they will be able to cooperate with each other to produce programs automatically.…”

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Automatic tracking camera system utilizing the position of faces in the shot image

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Okuda

Mutou

2006

2006 9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision

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We developed an automatic tracking system camera for TV program production that is capable of making stable shots by detecting the performers' facial positions. This system can make tracking shots as specified by the user, by using a subject detection module in which input images are simultaneously processed by several image-processing algorithms installed in PCs on a local network. The robot camera is driven with a feedback control for correcting face positions in an image and a speed control for responding to the subject's movement. An experiment on automatic shooting of moving performers confirmed that this camera system can shoot "viewer-friendly" images, i.e., images without large vibrations that affect a subject's position in an image.

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