Action Capture with Accelerometers

Ronit Slyper	Jessica Hodgins

ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (2008)

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-the-shelf 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.

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Ronit Slyper, Jessica Hodgins (2008). Action Capture with Accelerometers. ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation.

@inproceedings{Slyper:2008:action-capture,
author = "Ronit Slyper and Jessica Hodgins",
title = "Action Capture with Accelerometers",
month = jul,
booktitle = "ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation",
year = "2008",
}