Prasenjit Mukherjee

Absolutely! That's exactly the kind of situation we are thinking of! Another user posted a link to a drone that can follow you, however it uses a GPS signal which is delayed because of the transmission delay, so it will be reactively following your position. With a camera, everything can be run onboard, making for a smoother, faster tracking experience!

For sure! We envisioned this to mostly be a tool to help operators frame shots in difficult situations when the camera is mounted on a platform (Drone, cars etc.), awkward angles or to help track fast relative motion between operators and subjects. We were thinking of ways to make the actual operation easier while leaving the creative control and framing with the operator.

Hey Guys! We aren't officially cinematographers, but a couple of friends and I like shooting footage with Drones and Gimbals (hand-held and otherwise). We noticed a problem sometimes (esp with shooting aerial footage) where it was hard to frame shots while controlling a moving platform. We knew our way around computer vision techniques so we prototyped some autonomous tracking on just a laptop and camera. We are thinking of ways to put this on steadicams, gimbals and drones. I'm wondering if people have experience with something like this or would use something like this. We aren't camera operators, so I'd love to get some thoughts on it! Here is some footage (the first ones actually on a gimbal, the second one is just GoPro footage put through our tracker)!