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A Mobile Low-Cost Motion Capture System Based on Accelerometers

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2006)

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Low-cost accelerometers can be employed to create a motion-capture solution for below US$ 100. It may be used in mobile settings employing a portable digital recording device to capture the analog data of 15 degrees of freedom. The solution is integrated with standard 3D animation software. We introduce methods to extract and tweak kinematical as well as timing data from these acceleration sensors, which are attached to an actor’s limbs. These methods take care of the fact that the measured acceleration data alone can neither provide complete nor accurate information to satisfactorily reconstruct the captured motion. Particular emphasis is placed on the ease of use, in particular concerning the calibration of the system.

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  1. Universität Bremen,  

    Jan-Phillip Tiesel

  2. Hochschule Bremen,  

    Jörn Loviscach

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Digital Image Research Center, Kingston University, London, UK

    Paolo Remagnino

  6. Intel, 95052, Santa Clara, CA, USA

    Ara Nefian

  7. University of California, 430, Computer Science Building, 92697-3425, Irvine, CA, USA

    Gopi Meenakshisundaram

  8. Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization, P.O. Box

    Valerio Pascucci

  9. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech

    Jiri Zara

  10. Rockwell Scientific, 1049 Camino Dos Rios, 91360, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

    Jose Molineros

  11. Computer Graphics Group, Bielefeld University, D-33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Holger Theisel

  12. Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Tom Malzbender

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Tiesel, JP., Loviscach, J. (2006). A Mobile Low-Cost Motion Capture System Based on Accelerometers. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4292. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11919629_45

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