Cut Placement in a Multi-Camera Sequence

Abstract

Desirable cut-composition has a significant impact on viewers perceiving of movie production. We have designed a heuristics which solves optimal cut-collocation of multi-camera recording in offline video-processing context. Based on the information about events in multi-camera system, acquired with the help of computer vision methods, the cut-collocation problem has been transformed into the shortest path in an oriented graph problem. Final optimal solution can be simply found using well-known algorithms. The main focus of the design was on respecting at least the fundamental techniques used in cinematography. The resulting method was tested on recordings from two different setups.

Thesis

• thesis in Czech
• defense presentation in Czech

Movies

• resulting video sequence