A new photography style using a shooting assistant robot

Photography gives us pleasures in many ways. Shooting a photo itself is fun. It is also interesting to express one's emotion by photography. You can show pictures to friends and share memories. We focus on shooting and consider how to enhance a pleasure of shooting. One of the interesting things about shooting photos is storing information of a scene and keeping a memory of it. Usually a photographer takes photos only from a single viewpoint, but if one can shoot from multiple angles simultaneously in a simple action, then richer information of the scene can be obtained and that information will make photography more interesting. For instance, it would be attractive to take photos of a subject from different angles when there are few right moments to take photos available. If one can shoot a runner from one's side and the opposite side at the same time, power of representation of those photos becomes stronger. Also, it would be heartwarming to take the photos of a subject and oneself in the style of "making-of" movie. If a parent can shoot a smiling child and oneself at the same time, those photos become an enjoyable record of the family. However, it is difficult to take such photos without a help of others or a camera with a remote shutter button. Though automatic photography systems with autonomous mobility and computer vision were proposed in the past [GRIMM and SMART 2002, HIGU-CHI et al. 2011], they were designed to work alone and didn't behave in a cooperative manner with a human photographer.