Automatic Camera Framing and Cutting for Live Broadcast Production

We demonstrate a Virtual Director software for automatically selecting,framing and cutting between camera shots. The Virtual Director takes several sources of information into account in order to reason for multiple viewers with different devices in parallel, respecting real-time constraints. It uses a rule-based decision making approach which executes a set of generic and domain specific rules. Two different content sets from the domains of soccer and dance performance productions are used to demonstrate the applicability of automatic camera selection in different domains. The demo lets users experience the quality, potential and limitations of automatic camera selection and to understand the complexity of such a system that is part of an automatic broadcast production workflow.