ABSTRACT
Motion capture is a technology to record and digitalize the motion information of living creatures. In recent years, with the emergence of new types of sensors and the improvement of computational performance, motion capture has started to play an important role in many fields, such as realistic character animation for games and movies, motion analysis for medical diagnostics and sport science, or virtual reality. While motion capture techniques can apply to general moving objects, they are mostly applied to capture full-body motion of humans or the motion of body parts like the face or hands. This chapter focuses only on human motion.
