Motion capture has been recently used to provide much of character motion in several recent theatrical releases. It generally requires the recording to be done in an indoor environment with controlled light setting. This prevents directors from capturing motion in a natural setting or a large environment. In this paper we propose a method to solve this problem of motion capture in an unknown an...

The paper presents the SoundSaber a musical instrument based on motion capture technology. We present technical details of the instrument and discuss the design development process. The SoundSaber may be used as an example of how high-fidelity motion capture equipment can be used for prototyping musical instruments, and we illustrate this with an example of a low-cost implementation of our moti...

The paper presents research about implementing a full body inertial motion capture system, the Xsens MVN suit, for musical interaction. Three different approaches for streaming real time and prerecorded motion capture data with Open Sound Control have been implemented. Furthermore, we present technical performance details and our experience with the motion capture system in realistic practice.

Model-based optical motion capture systems require knowledge of the position of the markers relative to the underlying skeleton, the lengths of the skeleton’s limbs, and which limb each marker is attached to. These model parameters are typically assumed and entered into the system manually, although techniques exist for calculating some of them, such as the position of the markers relative to t...