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Record W28118798 · doi:10.1177/0049475516688148

Automatic camera control for capturing collaborative meetings

2009· article· en· W28118798 on OpenAlexaff
Abhishek Ranjan

Bibliographic record

VenueTropical Doctor · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultimedia Communication and Technology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceContext (archaeology)Video productionAutomationFocus (optics)MultimediaArtificial intelligenceSmart cameraPost-productionComputer visionHuman–computer interactionEngineering

Abstract

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The growing size of organizations is making it increasingly expensive to attend\nmeetings and difficult to retain what happened in those meetings. Meeting video\ncapture systems exist to support video conferencing for remote participation or\narchiving for later review, but they have been regarded ineffective. The reason\nis twofold. Firstly, the conventional way of capturing video using a single static\ncamera fails to capture focus and context. Secondly, a single static view is often\nmonotonous, making the video onerous to review. To address these issues, often\nhuman camera operators are employed to capture effective videos with changing\nviews, but this approach is expensive.\nIn this thesis, we argue that camera views can be changed automatically to\nproduce meeting videos effectively and inexpensively. We automate the camera view control by automatically determining the visual focus of attention as a function\nof time and moving the camera to capture it. In order to determine visual\nfocus of attention for different meetings, we conducted experiments and interviewed\ntelevision production professionals who capture meeting videos. Furthermore,\ntelevision production principles were used to appropriately frame shots\nand switch between shots.\nThe result of the evaluation of the automatic camera control system indicated\nits significant benefits over conventional static camera view. By applying television\nproduction principles various issues related to shot stability and screen\nmotion were resolved. The performance of the automatic camera control based\non television production principles also approached the performance of trained\nhuman camera crew. To further reduce the cost of the automation, we also explored\nthe application of computer vision and audio tracking.\nResults of our explorations provide empirical evidence in support of the utility\nof camera control encouraging future research in this area. Successful application\nof television production principles to automatically control cameras suggest\nvarious ways to handle issues involved in the automation process.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.090
Threshold uncertainty score0.301

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0900.023

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.339
Teacher spread0.319 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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