Subject Tracking with Camera Movement Using Single Board Computer

Abstract

Majority of the events happening around us actively involve camera operators to record the event. One may observe that if the camera operator is recording a video for the event, he/she has to continuously track the subject without losing a sight. No wonder such events (like classroom lectures, guest lectures, etc.) continue for long hours leaving the camera operator to feel exhausted in the tiresome tracking process. In this paper, we explore and discuss different experimental setups that could be potentially used in order to design a subject tracking camera system. The work presents a system that is able to track subjects and accordingly pan in real time. The system replicates a camera operator by detecting humans or objects and pan accordingly to track and record them. This subject tracking camera system can be implemented in classroom lectures to help teacher’s record video without the aid of any camera operator, or to ease the work of a camera operator in particular. Therefore, the idea here is not to replace camera operators, but to assist them during the video recording process and also to make people self-dependent to automate the entire process and carry out the task on their own. The application of such subject tracking cameras can be extended to a variety of events like guest lectures, keynotes and dance performances.