Off-the-Shelf, Real-Time Human Body Motion Capture for Synthetic Environments (with Supplement)
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Frey, William
Zyda, Michael
McGhee, Robert
Cockayne, Bill
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1995
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Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School.
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Human body tracking is a very important issue in synthetic environments,
pervading every application. The repercussions of not providing adequate methods
of motion capture for the user's head are often severe, ranging from user
disorientation to simulator sickness. The repercussions of not providing adequate
motion capture for the rest of the user's body, while not as severe, are often as
distracting. If the user is to interact in a natural way with a synthetic environment,
the interface must be intuitive, accurate, responsive and transparent. There are
many off-the-shelf motion capture systems available, employing a wide variety of
cutting-edge technologies. However, they all have unique problems which render
them either unsuitable for real-time applications or unsuitable for tracking the
human body. This paper addresses the current methods of synthetic environment
motion capture and evaluates their effectiveness when applied to real-time human
body tracking.
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Includes paper and supplement.
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Computer Science (CS)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.