Markerless Motion Capture for Humans in Video
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This proposal concerns automating the motion capture of humans. Motion capture is defined as “The creation of a 3D representation of a live performance” in the book Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and Video Games by Alberto Menache [20]. Specifically, we propose to develop a new framework for human motion capture based on recent advances in Bayesian object detection and tracking. Motion capture of humans is a key operation in film and game production, and is also useful for medical applications, ergonomics, and virtual reality. At present it is an expensive process, requiring special equipment and much user intervention. The proposal is to investigate new, state of the art, methods in tracking and object detection to obviate the need for specialized environments or equipment.
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