Combined 2D and 3D web-based visualisation of on-set big media data

In this paper, we present a web-based application allowing the analytic visualisation of on-set media data and metadata, which combines research from several fields of image processing and 3D graphics. Film and television production is currently undergoing a paradigm shift, away from the concept of capturing a `shot´ with a single principal camera view, to recording everything possible about the set, the environment, the objects and the actors within it. In parallel, the rise of cloud-based storage and processing is pushing towards applications being controlled via web or browser based interfaces. The application presented in this paper has been created to meet both of these needs, visualising Big Media Data via a web-based interface, and supporting the integration of multiple data formats and analysis. We discuss the different modalities and processing included in the current tool, stress the integration into the web and the solutions to the challenges posed, and show how the tool has been initially tested by professionals, with positive outcomes.