Description du projet
Placer des logiciels et des robots intelligents derrière la caméra
La production vidéo est complexe et onéreuse. Selon des estimations actuelles, la moitié des demandes de production ne sont pas économiquement viables. Les productions vidéo ne réalisent souvent aucun bénéfice si l’on tient compte des heures supplémentaires et des frais généraux. Comme dans d’autres secteurs, l’automatisation pourrait réduire les coûts globaux. Le projet Multi RoboDOP, financé par l’UE, va révolutionner le secteur en développant une plateforme logicielle de coordination multi-caméras pour permettre de futures fonctionnalités d’automatisation impliquant plusieurs robots coordonnés. La plateforme permettra d’étendre des services de flux de travail supplémentaires, tels que la localisation audio, la commutation automatisée et une grande variété d’intégrations avec des services de production vidéo.
Objectif
Inconsistent quality, high personnel costs and personnel administration are the main bottlenecks faced by video production/technology companies. As a result, they experience very tight budgets (production requests to do “more with less” - nothing creative is left to do) and margin squeeze in case of production overruns (video productions often risk zero profit once overtime and overhead for human operators is factored in). Based on that, several industry players argue that 50% of the production requests are economically infeasible. To that direction, automation (applying artificial intelligence and robotics to replace repetitive and routine tasks) has emerged as a solution towards tackling the aforementioned challenges. That way, tasks are executed more efficiently and companies can remove economic bottlenecks, decrease mistakes, speed up output and devote more time to creative activities. However state-of-the-art automation technologies are limited to assistive systems or partial automation.
Multi RoboDOP revolutionizes the video production industry, offering full automation. By extending the offerings of our patented single camera solution (RoboDOP), multi-camera robot setups (hardware) collaborate with our proprietary automation control software handling all operational tasks of traditional production crews autonomously. Not only do we make autonomous video production possible, but disrupt the cost structure of today’s video productions by reducing production costs by 40%. Thus we unlock 50% of the market that cannot afford professional video productions while offering reduced costs and increased ROIs for the remaining applications/use cases. Multi RoboDOP will need an additional investment for developing the multi-camera coordination software platform to enable future automation features involving multiple coordinated robots and expand our add-on workflow services such as post-production, cloud back-up/distribution and automated editing.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware development
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robots
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Régime de financement
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
8092 ZURICH ETH-ZENTRUM
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L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.