Challenges in autonomous UAV cinematography: An overview

I Mademlis, V Mygdalis, N Nikolaidis… - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous UAV cinematography is an active research field with exciting potential for the
media industry. It bears the promise of greatly facilitating UAV shooting for various …

Autonomous UAV cinematography: A tutorial and a formalized shot-type taxonomy

I Mademlis, N Nikolaidis, A Tefas, I Pitas… - ACM Computing …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The emerging field of autonomous UAV cinematography is examined through a tutorial for
non-experts, which also presents the required underlying technologies and connections with …

High-level multiple-UAV cinematography tools for covering outdoor events

I Mademlis, V Mygdalis, N Nikolaidis… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Camera-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or “drones,” are a recent addition to
standard audiovisual shooting technologies. As drone cinematography is expected to further …

[PDF][PDF] Computational video editing for dialogue-driven scenes.

M Leake, A Davis, A Truong… - ACM Trans. Graph., 2017 - graphics.stanford.edu
Digital cameras make it easy for lmmakers to record many versions, or takes, of a scene.
Each new take can provide a unique camera framing or performance, and skilled editors …

Towards a robust aerial cinematography platform: Localizing and tracking moving targets in unstructured environments

R Bonatti, C Ho, W Wang, S Choudhury… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of drones for aerial cinematography has revolutionized several applications and
industries that require live and dynamic camera viewpoints such as entertainment, sports …

Optimal trajectory planning for cinematography with multiple unmanned aerial vehicles

A Alcántara, J Capitán, R Cunha, A Ollero - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a method for planning optimal trajectories with a team of Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) performing autonomous cinematography. The method is able to plan …

Autonomous aerial cinematography in unstructured environments with learned artistic decision‐making

R Bonatti, W Wang, C Ho, A Ahuja… - Journal of Field …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aerial cinematography is revolutionizing industries that require live and dynamic camera
viewpoints such as entertainment, sports, and security. However, safely piloting a drone …

Act: An autonomous drone cinematography system for action scenes

C Huang, F Gao, J Pan, Z Yang, W Qiu… - … on robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones are enabling new forms of cinematography. Aerial filming via drones in action
scenes is difficult because it requires users to understand the dynamic scenarios and …

Autonomous drone cinematographer: Using artistic principles to create smooth, safe, occlusion-free trajectories for aerial filming

R Bonatti, Y Zhang, S Choudhury, W Wang… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2020 - Springer
Autonomous aerial cinematography has the potential to enable automatic capture of
aesthetically pleasing videos without requiring human intervention, empowering individuals …

Can a robot become a movie director? learning artistic principles for aerial cinematography

M Gschwindt, E Camci, R Bonatti… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerial filming is constantly gaining importance due to the recent advances in drone
technology. It invites many intriguing, unsolved problems at the intersection of aesthetical …