sunsern/cameraman

Source code for The Automatic Cameraman (TAC)

The Automatic Cameraman

Our implementation of The Automatic Cameraman (TAC) has 3 main components:

1. audio-localizer (C++)
2. face-localizer (Java)
3. MaxMSP interfaces (Max patches)

Requirements

Hardware:

• HTTP-based PTZ camera [https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-camerasptz/]
• Video interface [https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/intensity/]
• Audio interface [http://www.motu.com/]

Software:

• Max (w/ MSP and Jitter) v.>=5 [http://cycling74.com/products/max/]
• Quicktime [http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/]
• Soundflower [http://cycling74.com/soundflower/]
• curl
• Xcode
• Java (w/ Ant)

Setting up

1. Clone the repo on to TAC machine.
2. Compile audio localizer + controller by running src/controller/make.sh
3. Compile face localizer by running ant on src/face-tracker/build.xml
4. Fix any path errors if needed.

Managing TAC

• Start TAC by running scripts/startTAC.sh
• Stop TAC by running scripts/killTAC.sh

Issues

• If the camera pan speed is slow, run scripts/fix_camera_speed.sh