State of the Art in Human Motion Capture

Abstract

Human motion capture is a discipline which first gained importance and popularity through the film and animation industry. Animated sequences of humans or creatures from science-fiction movies are nowadays often created by mapping human motion to an animated figure. For this purpose, the motion must be captured in a way that allows for mapping of the observed motion to the target kinematic model. The VICON system, a marker-based tracking system using optical reflective markers, can be regarded as the gold standard for such applications.