Directing Cinematographic Drones
Quentin Galvane, Christophe Lino, Marc Christie, Julien Fleureau,, Fabien Servant, Francois-Louis Tariolle, Philippe Guillotel

TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel framework for planning and controlling cinematographic drone movements in 3D environments, combining a specialized camera parameter space with path planning to ensure aesthetic and physical feasibility.
Contribution
It presents the Drone Toric Space for intuitive camera control and a path planning method that enforces cinematographic and quadrotor constraints, including multi-drone coordination.
Findings
Demonstrates interactive and automated drone motion planning
Ensures paths satisfy cinematographic and physical constraints
Supports multi-drone coordination around dynamic targets
Abstract
Quadrotor drones equipped with high quality cameras have rapidely raised as novel, cheap and stable devices for filmmakers. While professional drone pilots can create aesthetically pleasing videos in short time, the smooth -- and cinematographic -- control of a camera drone remains challenging for most users, despite recent tools that either automate part of the process or enable the manual design of waypoints to create drone trajectories. This paper proposes to move a step further towards more accessible cinematographic drones by designing techniques to automatically or interactively plan quadrotor drone motions in 3D dynamic environments that satisfy both cinematographic and physical quadrotor constraints. We first propose the design of a Drone Toric Space as a dedicated camera parameter space with embedded constraints and derive some intuitive on-screen viewpoint manipulators.…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Vision and Imaging · Robotic Path Planning Algorithms · Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
