This lecture overviews issues related to drone cinematography for TV, cinema and media production. A drone cinematography language is defined to be used in drone shooting mission description, containing various types of drone AV shooting, e.g., chasing and orbiting. Shot types (e.g., close-up, long shot) are reviewed as well.
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Drone Regulatory Issues
This lecture overviews Drone Regulatory Issues that has many applications in autonomous drones. It covers the following topics in detail: Drone safety, Dual use avoidance, Misuse avoidance & Data Security, Data Protection (GDPR, data anonymization etc.), Privacy Protection (no-filming zones, face de-identification etc.)
Imaging for Drone Safety
This lecture overviews Imaging for Drone Safety that has many applications in autonomous drones. It covers the following topics in detail: Human crowd detection and crowd avoidance, Multiview crowd detection, Visual Drone Detection for collision avoidance, Emergency landing site detection.
Multiple Drone Communications
This lecture overviews various concepts related to multiple drone communications: LTE and WiFi communications, LTE communication infrastructure, IP network issues, Security analysis, throughput, latency and quality-of-service issues. Video compression and streaming issues are presented as well, embedded compression, video time-stamping, video synchronization a streaming to ground station.
Drone Communication Networks
This lecture overviews Drone Communication Networks that has many applications in autonomous drones. It covers the following topics in detail: Drones, FANET, FANET Features, FANET Architectures, Mobility Models, FANET Routing Protocols, Civilian Drones: Safety and Security Aspects, Open issues and challenges.
Drone Mission Simulations
This lecture overviews various drone mission simulator architectures, notably AirSim and Gazebo. Their use in various drone scenarios are presented: pilot training, synthetic data generation for DNN training, drone cinematography parameter selection based on drone output video quality. Finally various examples of drone mission simulations on Gazebo are presented.