This repo is combined with the paper "View Planning for High-Fidelity Reconstruction of Dynamic Actor using Flying Camera".

Install in the virtual environments, and the API for the AirSim with pip.

pip install airsim

Environments are placed in the envs folder. The envs folder contains the following files:

• `vp_drone.py' : wrapper of APIs for the drone
• `env_airsim.py': the environment for the simulation

To use the environment, you may want to call scripts from simulation folder.

• 'sim_vp_local.py': call the environment in CV model.

View planning algortihm based on Pixels-Per-Area (PPA) metric is placed in vp_local folder.

• 'vp_planner.py`: compute PPA values and optimize view points based on PPAs.