Automatic lecture recording

We present our system for automatic lecture recording. In contrast to traditional lecture recording systems our approach aims to imitate a real camera team, consisting of multiple cameramen and a director, in order to make the recording more vivid. At first, we introduce the environment. Then, we present our approach, beginning with the director module, followed by the cameraman module and the sensor tools module, referring to the jobs of the respective human originals. The director is based on an Extended Finite State Machine, with transition conditions depending on input from sensor tools. The cameraman automatically controls iris, focus, etc., and also takes basic cinematographic rules into account. The video concludes with an example result of our virtual camera team of a real lecture. A video demo of our approach is available at [4].

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