TY - GEN
T1 - Visual servoing of presenters in augmented virtual reality TV studios
AU - Nair, Suraj
AU - Röder, Thorsten
AU - Panin, Giorgio
AU - Knoll, Alois
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper presents recent developments in the area of visual tracking methodologies for an applied real-time person localization system, which primary aims to robust and failure-safe robotic camera control. We applied the described methods to virtual-reality TV broadcasting studio environments in Germany in order to close a gap in TV studio automation. The presented approach uses robot camera systems based on industrial robots in order to allow high-precision camera manipulation for virtual TV studios, without limiting the degrees of freedom that a robot manipulator can provide. To take robotic automation in TV studios to a completely new dimension, we have imparted intelligence to the system by tracking the TV presenter in real-time, allowing him or her to move naturally and freely within the TV studio, while maintaining the required scene parameters, such as position in the scene, zoom, focus, etc. according to prior defined scene behaviors. The tracking system itself is distributed and has proven to be scalable to multiple robotic camera systems operating synchronously in real-world studios.
AB - This paper presents recent developments in the area of visual tracking methodologies for an applied real-time person localization system, which primary aims to robust and failure-safe robotic camera control. We applied the described methods to virtual-reality TV broadcasting studio environments in Germany in order to close a gap in TV studio automation. The presented approach uses robot camera systems based on industrial robots in order to allow high-precision camera manipulation for virtual TV studios, without limiting the degrees of freedom that a robot manipulator can provide. To take robotic automation in TV studios to a completely new dimension, we have imparted intelligence to the system by tracking the TV presenter in real-time, allowing him or her to move naturally and freely within the TV studio, while maintaining the required scene parameters, such as position in the scene, zoom, focus, etc. according to prior defined scene behaviors. The tracking system itself is distributed and has proven to be scalable to multiple robotic camera systems operating synchronously in real-world studios.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78651508879&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2010.5648809
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2010.5648809
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78651508879
SN - 9781424466757
T3 - IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings
SP - 3771
EP - 3777
BT - IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings
T2 - 23rd IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010
Y2 - 18 October 2010 through 22 October 2010
ER -