16 Feb
2015
16 Feb
'15
8:38 a.m.
CFP Reminder : 4th Workshop on Intelligent Camera Control, Cinematography
and Editing
The expressive use of virtual cameras, mise-en-scene, lighting and editing
(montage) within 3D synthetic environment shows great promise to extend the
communicative power of film and video into the artificial environments of
games and virtual worlds.
Cinematics produced in virtual worlds play a role not just for
entertainment, but also for training, education, health-care communication,
simulation, visualization and many other contexts. The automatic creation of
cinematics in these environments holds the potential to produce video
sequences appropriate for the wide range of applications and tailored to
specific spatial, temporal, communicative, user and application contexts.
At the same time, recent advances in computer vision-based object, actor and
action recognition make it possible to envision novel re-cinematography
(re-lighting, re-framing) and automatic editing of live-action video. This
third workshop on intelligent cinematography and editing is intended to
bridge the gap between the two areas and confront research being performed
in both domains. One common area of active research is the representation
and understanding of the story to be told and its relation to teaching,
training or therapeutic goals.
The workshop is open to researchers and industrial experts working on the
many related aspects of digital cinematography and film editing in their
respective fields, including 3D graphics, artificial intelligence, computer
vision, visualisation, interactive narrative, cognitive and perceptual
psychology, computational linguistics, computational aesthetics and visual
effects.
These researchers will draw upon cutting edge research and technologies
regarding both the production and comprehension of cinematographic artworks
in virtual worlds and the real world.
Topics of interest
o Camera path planning
o Visibility computation
o Viewpoint entropy
o Navigation techniques and proximal exploration
o Interactive camera control metaphors
o Approaches to framing and composition of individual shots
o Automatic lighting design
o Intelligent staging and blocking of virtual lights, cameras and actors
o Expressive performance of virtual characters
o Intelligent video editing tools
o Efficient algorithms for camera placement and shot sequence selection
o Natural user interfaces for camera control and video editing
o Parallels between cinematic and linguistic communication
o Cognitive models of the comprehension of virtual cinematics
o Re-cinematography, re-lighting and re-framing of live-action video
o Computer-assisted multi-camera production
o Virtual cinematography as a pre-visualisation tool for real-world
filming
o Intelligent tools and novel interfaces for in-game cinematics, replays,
and machinima
o Intelligent generation of comic book layouts
o Evaluation methodologies and user experience
o Interactive and generative cinema
o Cinematic serious game and applications
o Collaborative visual storytelling
o Non-linear storytelling
o Transmedia storytelling
o Creativity in cinematic communication
Submission
Researchers should submit one of:
. 8 page paper reporting new work or new ideas in a relevant research area.
. 1 page abstract describing emergent work or a vision of the near term
future of intelligent cinematography.
Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee; review criteria will
intentionally be inclusive rather than competitive, to encourage work in
progress and a broader participation in a nascent community of researchers.
Reviews will include feedback for authors regardless of decision for
acceptance or rejection. All the selected papers (excluding statements of
interest) will be published in the workshop's working notes.
Proceedings of the workshop will be published by EG Publishing provided in
the EG Digital Library.
Submission site: <https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/WICED_2015>
https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/WICED_2015