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Robots and the Moving Camera in Cinema, Television and Digital Media

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Cultural Robotics (CR 2015)

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The moving camera is a ubiquitous element in visual culture, and one that is undergoing significant change. Camera movement has traditionally been bound to the capabilities of human bodies and their physical equipment. Computer-based and robotic systems are enabling changes in image genres, extending the fields of perception for viewers. Motion control systems provide much tighter control over the movement of the camera in space and time. On television, wire-suspended cameras such as Skycam and Spidercam provide aerial perspectives above sports fields and music venues. Drones bring to the image a fusion of intimacy and magical elevation. An emerging domain of vision systems is in robotics and surveillance systems that remove the human operator entirely from the production and interpretation of images. In each of these cases, the question of the subjectivity and objectivity of images is complicated.

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  1. Digital Cultures Program, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    Chris Chesher

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  1. Creative Robotics Lab UNSW Art & Design , Paddington, Australia

    Jeffrey T.K.V. Koh

  2. Creative Robotics Lab , Paddington, New South Wales, Australia

    Belinda J. Dunstan

  3. Creative Robotics Lab , Paddington, Australia

    David Silvera-Tawil

  4. Creative Robotics Lab , Paddington, Australia

    Mari Velonaki

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Chesher, C. (2016). Robots and the Moving Camera in Cinema, Television and Digital Media. In: Koh, J., Dunstan, B., Silvera-Tawil, D., Velonaki, M. (eds) Cultural Robotics. CR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9549. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42945-8_9

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