CineWild: Balancing Art and Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Documentary Filmmaking
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| author | Pueyo, Pablo Caballero, Fernando Murillo, Ana Cristina Montijano, Eduardo |
| author_facet | Pueyo, Pablo Caballero, Fernando Murillo, Ana Cristina Montijano, Eduardo |
| contents | Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have become powerful tools across domains-from industry to the arts. In documentary filmmaking, they offer dynamic, otherwise unreachable perspectives, transforming how stories are told. Wildlife documentaries especially benefit, yet drones also raise ethical concerns: the risk of disturbing the animals they aim to capture. This paper introduces CineWild, an autonomous UAV framework that combines robotics, cinematography, and ethics. Built on model predictive control, CineWild dynamically adjusts flight paths and camera settings to balance cinematic quality with animal welfare. Key features include adaptive zoom for filming from acoustic and visual safe distances, path-planning that avoids an animal's field of view, and smooth, low-noise maneuvers. CineWild exemplifies interdisciplinary innovation-bridging engineering, visual storytelling, and environmental ethics. We validate the system through simulation studies and will release the code upon acceptance. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | CineWild: Balancing Art and Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Documentary Filmmaking Pueyo, Pablo Caballero, Fernando Murillo, Ana Cristina Montijano, Eduardo Robotics Multimedia Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have become powerful tools across domains-from industry to the arts. In documentary filmmaking, they offer dynamic, otherwise unreachable perspectives, transforming how stories are told. Wildlife documentaries especially benefit, yet drones also raise ethical concerns: the risk of disturbing the animals they aim to capture. This paper introduces CineWild, an autonomous UAV framework that combines robotics, cinematography, and ethics. Built on model predictive control, CineWild dynamically adjusts flight paths and camera settings to balance cinematic quality with animal welfare. Key features include adaptive zoom for filming from acoustic and visual safe distances, path-planning that avoids an animal's field of view, and smooth, low-noise maneuvers. CineWild exemplifies interdisciplinary innovation-bridging engineering, visual storytelling, and environmental ethics. We validate the system through simulation studies and will release the code upon acceptance. |
| title | CineWild: Balancing Art and Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Documentary Filmmaking |
| topic | Robotics Multimedia |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24921 |