Action Capture with Accelerometers

Slyper, Ronit; Hodgins, Jessica

Action Capture with Accelerometers

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Date

2008

Authors

Slyper, Ronit
Hodgins, Jessica

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We create a performance animation system that leverages the power of low-cost accelerometers, readily available motion capture databases, and construction techniques from e-textiles. Our system, built with only off-theshelf parts, consists of five accelerometers sewn into a comfortable shirt that streams data to a computer. The accelerometer readings are continuously matched against accelerations computed from existing motion capture data, and an avatar is animated with the closest match. We evaluate our system visually and using simultaneous motion and accelerometer capture.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/SCA/SCA08/193-199
,
booktitle = {Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation
},
editor = {Markus Gross and Doug James
},
title = {{Action Capture with Accelerometers
}},
author = {Slyper, Ronit and 
Hodgins, Jessica
},
year = {2008
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-5288
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-10-1
},
DOI = {/10.2312/SCA/SCA08/193-199
}
}