Content based active video data acquisition via automated cameramen

We propose to actively apply content based operation to video data acquisition. Our goal is to develop an automated cameraman to replace the human operator who acquires data in a content sensitive (smart) manner. This auto cameramen is capable of (1) constantly monitoring a global surrounding; (2) automatically keeping track of important visual events; (3) dynamically, based on the detected visual events, determining the video acquisition strategy; and (4) actively generating continuous video clips that are visual events coherent