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Camera placement in 3D scenes is a relevant issue in most 3D graphics interactive application, such as videogames, data visualization, and virtual tours. Virtual Camera Composition (VCC) consists in automatically positioning a camera in a virtual world, such that the resulting image satisfies a set of visual cinematographic properties [1]. We propose a Particle Swarm algorithm to solve the problem, which exhibits superior performances w.r.t. other approaches. The algorithm has been tested on a set of image descriptions on a complex 3D model.
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Di Gaspero, L., Ermetici, A., Ranon, R. (2008). Swarming in a Virtual World: A PSO Approach to Virtual Camera Composition. In: Dorigo, M., Birattari, M., Blum, C., Clerc, M., Stützle, T., Winfield, A.F.T. (eds) Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence. ANTS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5217. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87527-7_14
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