PT Journal
AU Dessai, S
   Hornung, A
   Kobbelt, L
TI Automatic Data Normalization and Parameterization for Optical Motion Tracking
SO JVRB - Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting
PY 2006
VL 3(2006)
IS 3
DI 10.20385/1860-2037/3.2006.3
DE Automatic Normalization and Parameterization; Optical Motion Capture
AB Methods for optical motion capture often require timeconsuming manual processing before the data can be used for subsequent tasks such as retargeting or character animation. These processing steps restrict the applicability of motion capturing especially for dynamic VR-environments with real time requirements. To solve these problems, we present two additional, fast and automatic processing stages based on our motion capture pipeline presented in [HSK05]. A normalizationstep aligns the recorded coordinate systems with the skeleton structure to yield a common and intuitive data basis across different recording sessions. A second step computes a parameterization based on automatically extracted main movement axes to generatea compact motion description. Our method does not restrict the placement of marker bodies nor the recording setup, and only requires a short calibration phase.
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