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Distant learning provides equal opportunities for learners living in either metropolises or remote countries. Lecture recording systems play an important role in collecting discourse contents for distant learning. In this paper, an automated lecture recording (ALR) system is presented. The proposed system is composed of two principal components, referred to as the virtual cameraman (VC) subsystem and the virtual director (VD) subsystem, respectively. There are three PTZ cameras and a Kinect device incorporated in the VC subsystem. It determines the views of the speaker, audiences and auditorium to be taken by the cameras based on their images and a set of shooting rules. The VD subsystem performs spatiotemporal analyses on the images provided by the VC subsystem, from which appropriate images are selected to present. The behavior of the ALR system is governed by a deterministic finite automaton with the minimum number of states.
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