David Fuschi

Migrating from Process Automation to Process Management Support: a Holistic Approach to Software Engineering applied to Media Production

This paper presents the on-going research performed in order to migrate from process automation to process management support in the context of media production and more specifically 3D cinematographic immersive and interactive production. The endeavour has been addressed on the basis of a holistic approach to software engineering applied to media production modelling to ensure design correctness, completeness and effectiveness. The focus of the designed application is on information and metadata management throughout the process in a similar fashion to that achieved in Decision Support Systems (DSS) to facilitate well-grounded business decisions. The paper sets out the aims and objectives and the methodology deployed. The proposed solution is then described in some detail including the workflow to be supported and the experimental scenario as planned. The paper concludes with some preliminary conclusions and sets out the planned future work.

A Unified Test Procedure Designed for Monitoring the Experimental Settings Ensuring Quality Assurance in 3D and Stereoscopic Productions

In the context of an EU co-funded project, the authors have developed a semantically-enabled solution for 3D and stereoscopic film productions process monitoring. This paper describes the method selected to design and deliver a unified procedure to consistently set-up and test the acquisition prototype developed. The underlying idea is that at each development step it will be necessary to verify the improvement (or defects) introduced. Therefore, after the calibration steps, the repetition of a well codified testing procedure based on standard cinematographic practices and comprising most of the usual possible shooting issues was used to achieve comparable results thus improving quality control.