In development, personal R&D
SmartTrack
Computer vision and hardware
A camera that holds a moving subject in frame at high zoom, for a whole day, with nobody behind it. The mount, the electronics, the tracking and the zoom control were all designed from scratch, because nothing off the shelf did it. Built in my own time.
What had to be built
Motorised mountCAD and 3D printed
Motor controlCustom
Subject trackingOn the device
Zoom controlFollows the subject
OperatorNone
Hardware and softwareboth designed from scratch
First field testtracking, zoom and motor control worked together
What it is for
Filming one moving subject all day usually costs one person
- Nothing off the shelf tracked a fast subject at high zoom, so the whole thing was built from scratch
- The mount was designed in CAD and printed, because the motion had to be smooth enough to film
- Tracking and zoom run on the device, so it does not depend on a laptop in a field
- Aimed at a setup with no operator at all, feeding straight into SmartStream
Have something that should work like this?
Tell me what the work looks like now, and I will tell you whether software is the answer and what it would take.