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CVFX Lecture 20: Motion capture setup and forward kinematics

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Channel: Rich Radke · 2014 · Education

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ECSE-6969 Computer Vision for Visual Effects
Rich Radke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lecture 20: Motion capture setup and forward kinematics (4/7/14)

0:00:03  Motion capture
0:03:27  Mocap pipeline
0:06:02  Motion capture technology alternatives
0:09:22  The motion capture environment
0:14:37  Mocap marker placement
0:19:27  Triangulating markers
0:24:00  Interpolating missing markers
0:32:34  Mocap examples
0:38:06  The kinematic model
0:44:21  Forward kinematics
0:49:02  Parameterizing 3D rotations and rigid motions

Follows Sections 7.1-7.3 of the textbook.  http://cvfxbook.com

Key references:

A. Menache. Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation. Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd edition, 2011. 

G. Liu and L. McMillan. Estimation of missing markers in human motion capture. The Visual Computer, 22(9):721--8, Sept. 2006.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00371-006-0080-9

C. Bregler, J. Malik, and K. Pullen. Twist based acquisition and tracking of animal and human kinematics. International Journal of Computer Vision, 56(3):179--94, Feb. 2004.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:VISI.0000011203.00237.9b

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