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Old School: 8K multi-camera shoot for a computational cinematography dataset

Paper 402: The reasons and processes for our research into AI automated editing systems.

Published: 7 August 2022
Scene from the shoot of person looking at their reflection in a dressing room mirror.
  • Graeme Phillipson

    Machine Learning Engineer
  • Stephen Jolly

    Stephen Jolly

    Senior R&D Engineer
  • Alia Sheikh

    Alia Sheikh

    Senior Development Producer

The rationale for, and the process and outcomes of, a shoot that Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Research & Development carried out in 2021 to create the Old School dataset. The main use case for the dataset is to further research into AI automated editing systems. We introduce our way of thinking about these systems and explain why we believe a widely available dataset is necessary if research into these systems is to reach its potential. We then explain why a new shoot was necessary to generate such material.

We proceed to give an overview of the shoot’s creative process. We do this with a particular focus on explaining those aspects of the shoot which differed from conventional TV production in order to produce a dataset with the desired technical and editorial characteristics. Different sections are provided that cover the planning and pre-production stage, the shoot itself, and the post-shoot work to process the material and generate metadata.

We finish with a summary of the material and metadata that have been included in the asset bundle for the dataset that will be shared with collaborators, and an overview of the process by which we determined what to include in this bundle.

An appendix to the document includes the full credits for the shoot; the authors offer their sincere thanks to all those who are listed therein.

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