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Action capture with accelerometers

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Jessica K. HodginsAuthors Info & Claims

SCA '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation

Pages 193 - 199

Published: 07 July 2008 Publication History

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-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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Index Terms

Action capture with accelerometers
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
    2. Graphics systems and interfaces
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Graphics input devices

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SCA '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation

July 2008

230 pages

ISBN:9783905674101

Conference Chairs:
Eugene Fiume,
Jerry Tessendorf,
Program Chairs:
Markus Gross,
Doug James

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
EUROGRAPHICS: The European Association for Computer Graphics

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Eurographics Association

Goslar, Germany

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SCA08: The ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation

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