Computational rim illumination with aerial robots
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Srikanth, Manohar Balagatte; Bala, Kavita; Durand, Frederic
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Lighting plays a major role in photography. Professional photographers use elaborate installations to light their subjects and achieve sophisticated styles. However, lighting moving subjects performing dynamic tasks presents significant challenges and requires expensive manual intervention. A skilled additional assistant might be needed to reposition lights as the subject changes pose or moves, and the extra logistics significantly raises costs and time. We present a new approach to lighting dynamic subjects where an aerial robot equipped with a portable light source lights the subject to automatically achieve a desired lighting effect. We focus on rim lighting, a particularly challenging effect to achieve with dynamic subjects, and allow the photographer to specify a required rim width. Our algorithm processes the images from the photographer's camera and provides necessary motion commands to the aerial robot to achieve the desired rim width in the resulting photographs. We demonstrate a control approach that localizes the aerial robot with reference to the subject and tracks the subject to achieve the necessary motion. Our proof-of-concept results demonstrate the utility of robots in computational lighting. 2014 Copyright held by the Owner/Author. Publication rights licensed to ACM. ACM 978-1-4503-3019-0/14/08 $15.00.
Date issued
2014-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceJournal
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Aesthetics
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ACM Press
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Srikanth, Manohar, et al. “Computational Rim Illumination with Aerial Robots.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Aesthetics - CAe ’14, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 8-10 August, 2014, ACM Press, 2014, pp. 57–66.
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9781450330190