Full Body Motion Capture - A Flexible Marker Based Solution

By Christian Schönauer, Thomas Pintaric, and Hannes Kaufmann

Abstract

Full body motion capture (MoCap) plays an increasingly im-portant role in many fields from entertainment to medicine. How-ever, accurate motion capture systems have not been used in some application areas due to reasons like cost, inflexibility and complexity of operation. We developed a complete marker based optical MoCap system, which targets these issues. In this paper we describe how a flexible calibration method, robust skeleton tracking and interfaces to third party software have been devel-oped. To demonstrate robustness, reliability and accuracy, our system has been successfully employed to provide input to a serious game targeting rehabilitation of patients with chronic pain of the lower back and neck, a group that has previously been neglected by serious games. A brief overview of the application and preliminary results of a medical evaluation with chronic pain patients is provided.

Reference

C. Schönauer, T. Pintaric, H. Kaufmann: "Full Body Motion Capture - A Flexible Marker Based Solution"; Talk: Joint Virtual Reality Conference (JVRC 2011), Nottingham, UK; 09-20-2011 - 09-21-2011; in: "Proceedings of Workshop on Accessibility Engineering with user models, simulation and VR", (2012), 8 pages.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{TUW-204383, author = {Sch{\"o}nauer, Christian and Pintaric, Thomas and Kaufmann, Hannes}, title = {Full Body Motion Capture - A Flexible Marker Based Solution}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Workshop on Accessibility Engineering with user models, simulation and VR}, year = {2012}, numpages = {8}, url = {http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_204383.pdf}, note = {Vortrag: Joint Virtual Reality Conference (JVRC 2011), Nottingham, UK; 2011-09-20 -- 2011-09-21} } Click into the text area and press Ctrl+A/Ctrl+C or ⌘+A/⌘+C to copy the BibTeX into your clipboard… or download the BibTeX.