Virtual Videography
Well-produced videos provide a convenient and effective way to
archive lectures. In this demonstration, we present a new way to
create lecture videos that possess many of the advantages of wellcomposed
recordings without the cost and intrusion of a video production
crew. The videos are produced by an automated system
called Virtual Videography that employs the art of videography
to mimic videographer-produced videos, while being unobtrusive
when recording the lectures. The system uses the data recorded
by unattended video cameras and microphones to produce a new
edited video as an offline post-process. By producing videos offline,
our system can use future information when planning shot
sequences and synthesizing new shots. Using syntactic cues gathered
from the original video and a novel shot planning algorithm,
the system makes cinematic decisions without any semantic understanding
of the lecture.
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BibTex references
@InProceedings{HWG06, author = "Heck, Rachel and Wallick, Michael and Gleicher, Michael", title = "Virtual Videography", booktitle = "ACM Multimedia Video Program", year = "2006", url = "http://graphics.cs.wisc.edu/Papers/2006/HWG06" }