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Motion based remote camera control with mobile devices

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With current digital cameras and smartphones, taking photos and videos has never been easier. However, it is still difficult to take a photo of a brief action at the right time. In addition, editing captured videos, such as modifying the playback speed of some parts of a video, remains a time consuming task.
In this work we investigate how the motion sensors embedded in mobile devices, such as smartphones, can facilitate camera control. In particular, we show two families of applications: automatic camera trigger control for jump photos and automatic playback speed control (video speed ramping) for action videos. Our approach uses joint devices: a remote camera takes a photo or a video of the scene and it is controlled by the motion sensor of a mobile device, either during or after recording. This allows casual users to achieve visually appealing effects with little effort, even for self portraits.

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  • (2021)Motionsnap: A Motion Sensor-Based Approach for Automatic Capture and Editing of Photos and Videos on Smartphones2021 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)10.1109/ICME51207.2021.9428137(1-6)Online publication date: 5-Jul-2021
  • (2018)RemotionProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/32142802:2(1-18)Online publication date: 5-Jul-2018

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    MobileHCI '16: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
    September 2016
    567 pages
    ISBN:9781450344081
    DOI:10.1145/2935334
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    1. camera trigger
    2. jump photo
    3. motion sensor
    4. remote control
    5. video speed ramping

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    • (2021)Motionsnap: A Motion Sensor-Based Approach for Automatic Capture and Editing of Photos and Videos on Smartphones2021 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)10.1109/ICME51207.2021.9428137(1-6)Online publication date: 5-Jul-2021
    • (2018)RemotionProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/32142802:2(1-18)Online publication date: 5-Jul-2018

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