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Realtime Bullettime Effect Coming Soon To A Boxing Ring Near You

Jun 6, 2013 by Udi Tirosh 1 Comment

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I love a good time freezing Bullettime effect. And we have shared quite a few rigs on the blog. All with varying degrees of sophistication and effort. From a LO-FI pinhole rig, through a crowd funded version to a high end light painting 360 rig. And quite a few others too.

Realtime Bullettime Effect Coming Soon To A Boxing Ring Near You

They all had one thing in common, after taking the footage with the multi-camera rig needed a significant amount of post processing time to create the bullet time effect, making it practically unfitted for live event coverage.

The engineers at broadcast company NHK, are doing it differently. Using a dedicated control console, a central processor and an array of cameras they are able to provide real time bullettime effect.

Realtime Bullettime Effect Coming Soon To A Boxing Ring Near You

The camera array is build of multiple cameras, each equipped with a motorized pan/tilt head and a motorized zoom. All of which are controlled via the console while the computer makes sure the images are aligned for bullettime effect.

Here is how NHK describes the system:

“Pictures taken with robot cameras inevitably have discrepancies in direction control. So simply switching between them doesn’t give smooth pictures. To solve that problem, we’ve brought in a computer, which redoes the direction control virtually. Image processing is done, to virtually orient the cameras in the direction of the subject, making it possible to switch between the cameras.”

“Pictures from this system can be sent out about one minute after filming is finished. First of all, we intend to use this for live sports broadcasting. We’d like to make it easy to understand what’s happening, by providing multi-viewpoint pictures instead of the current slow-motion replay.”#

Realtime Bullettime Effect Coming Soon To A Boxing Ring Near You

Interestingly, the use of a multi-camera array not only makes it possible to have an on-demand bullettime effect, but also provides instant multi-angle 3D view.

I can’t wait for the 2016 Olympics now.

[Multi-viewpoint robotic camera system creates real ‘bullet time’ slow motion replays via FilmmakerIQ.com]

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Udi Tirosh: from diyphotography.net

About Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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