Motion-blur-free video shooting system based on frame-by-frame intermittent tracking

In this paper, a concept of frame-by-frame intermittent tracking to achieve motion-blur-free and high-brightness images when video shooting fast moving scenes is proposed. In our tracking concept, two control methods are applied alternately at hundreds of hertz, according to the open or closed shutter state of the camera. When the shutter is open, the target’s speed in images is controlled at zero and visual feedback is transmitted to achieve motion blur reduction, and when the shutter is closed, the camera returns to its home position. We developed a prototype of our motion-blur-free video shooting system, which consists of our tracking method implemented on a high-speed two degrees-of-freedom tracking vision platform that controls the pan and tilt directions of the camera view by using high-speed video processing in order to reduce motion blur. Our motion-blur-free video shooting system can capture gray-level 512 × 512 images at 125 fps with frame-by-frame intermittent tracking. Its performance is verified by the experimental results for several video sequences of fast moving objects. In the experiments, without a decrease in the exposure times our method reduced image degradation caused by motion blur. © 2017, The Author(s).