Galvane, QuentinFleureau, JulienTariolle, Francois-LouisGuillotel, PhilippeM. Christie and Q. Galvane and A. Jhala and R. Ronfard2016-05-042016-05-042016978-3-03868-005-52411-9733https://doi.org/10.2312/wiced.20161097The rise of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and their increasing use in the cinema industry calls for the creation of dedicated tools. Though there is a range of techniques to automatically control drones for a variety of applications, none have considered the problem of producing cinematographic camera motion in real-time for shooting purposes. In this paper we present our approach to UAV navigation for autonomous cinematography. The contributions of this research are twofold: (i) we adapt virtual camera control techniques to UAV navigation; (ii) we introduce a drone-independent platform for high-level user interactions that integrates cinematographic knowledge. The results presented in this paper demonstrate the capacities of our tool to capture live movie scenes involving one or two moving actors.I.2.9 [Artificial Intelligence]RoboticsAutonomous vehicles10.2312/wiced.2016109723-30