A Dual-Transformer for Multi-Camera View Recommendation

Abstract

Multi-camera systems are foundational to modern media production, and multi-camera editing is a critical task. This involves the proper selection of the appropriate camera view at each moment. In this paper, we propose a novel Dual-Transformer architecture with Cross-Attention that heavily outperformed the current SOTA models over the TVMCE dataset (TV Shows Multicamera Editing dataset). Our model decouples these tasks: (1) a dedicated temporal encoder first processes the sequence of past frames to build a rich memory of the recent history, and (2) the candidate camera views then act as queries to this memory via a cross-attention module, allowing each candidate to independently interrogate the historical context and find the most relevant information for its own evaluation. Our approach achieved 56.60% Precision@0.5, representing a substantial improvement over the prior best result of 37.16%. We further conducted an ablation study exploring the use of lightweight backbone architectures, where the SwinV2 backbone yielded the best performance, achieving 69.65% Precision@0.5. Using this best-performing configuration, we then investigated the feasibility of adapting the model to replicate the editing style of a specific human editor. To this end, we fine-tuned the model using varying proportions of the initial segment of a target video. Our results demonstrate that even with only 20% of the video used for fine-tuning, the model exhibited measurable improvements in Precision@0.5, indicating strong potential for data-efficient personalization of editing style adapted to each individual TV show or producer.