  The 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.
