The Framework of an Automatic Digital Movie Producer

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The aim of our project is to develop an easy-to-use tool that provides an integrated environment for dealing with the complete process of creating digital film. To make the creating process automated, we propose to employ a verbal screenplay as input form. The system we designed can understand the script through a parser, then a virtual director and a virtual cinematographer automatically translate it into a relevant motion picture with various visual effects like real image, three-dimension (3D) animation, or augmented reality. In this paper, "video" stands for all kinds of clips of these visual presentations. On account of the ability to extract suitable video clips from digital video web library and present movie production on web, video data in our system is encoded in XML and tracked by the MPEG-7 standard. This system is an extension of DMP [Seiya and others, 2002].