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A Quick Filtering for Similarity Queries in Motion Capture Databases

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A similarity retrieval of motion capture data has received substantial attention in recent years. In this paper, we focus on feature extraction and quick filtering methods in the similarity retrieval system. A representation of motion capture data is joint angles, which can distinguish different human body poses. We propose a new technique for dimensionality reduction based the average and variance of joint angles. Our dimensionality reduction is simple to understand and implement. In experiments, twenty dance motion clips each of which is different in length and style, are used in the test data set with a total of 60,000 frames. The results of our quick filtering show an achievement on the recall and precision up to 100% and 70%, respectively.

Keywords

  • Similarity Retrieval
  • Motion Capture
  • Body Motion Data
  • Dimension Reduction
  • Minimal Bounding Envelop
  • Feature Extraction

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  1. School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan

    Worawat Choensawat, Woong Choi & Kozaburo Hachimura

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  1. Naresuan University, 65000, Phisanulok, Thailand

    Paisarn Muneesawang

  2. Microsoft Research Asia, 100109, Beijing, China

    Feng Wu

  3. Tokyo Institute of Technology, 226-8503, Yokohama, Japan

    Itsuo Kumazawa

  4. Mahanakorn University of Technology, 10530, Bankok, Thailand

    Athikom Roeksabutr

  5. Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Mark Liao

  6. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong,  

    Xiaoou Tang

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Choensawat, W., Choi, W., Hachimura, K. (2009). A Quick Filtering for Similarity Queries in Motion Capture Databases. In: Muneesawang, P., Wu, F., Kumazawa, I., Roeksabutr, A., Liao, M., Tang, X. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2009. PCM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5879. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10467-1_35

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