FlySPEC: a multi-user video camera system with hybrid human and automatic control

  • Authors:
  • Qiong Liu;Don Kimber;Jonathan Foote;Lynn Wilcox;John Boreczky

  • Affiliations:
  • FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA;FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA;FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA;FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA;FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

FlySPEC is a video camera system designed for real-time remote operation. A hybrid design combines the high resolution of an optomechanical video camera with the wide field of view always available from a panoramic camera. The control system integrates requests from multiple users so that each controls a virtual camera. The control system seamlessly integrates manual and fully automatic control. It supports a range of options from untended automatic to full manual control. The system can also learn control strategies from user requests. Additionally, the panoramic view is always available for an intuitive interface, and objects are never out of view regardless of the zoom factor. We present the system architecture, an information-theoretic approach to combining panoramic and zoomed images to optimally satisfy user requests, and experimental results that show the FlySPEC system significantly assists users in a remote inspection tasks.