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Apparatus and method for high-speed marker-free motion capture

  • US 20040119716A1
  • Filed: 05/28/2003
  • Published: 06/24/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for a high-speed marker-free motion capture comprising:

  • a 2-dimensional feature point extraction module for obtaining an image with respect to a background with no actor by using a plurality of cameras having different viewing angles from each other to store the obtained image as RGB color space having a characteristic which easily emphasizes color difference and HSI color space having a characteristic which easily emphasizes color similarity, obtaining an image with respect to an initial posture of the actor to make blob models with respect to a head, hands, feet, trunk, arms and legs, extracting an adjacent connection relationship between the blob models and storing the extracted relationship, receiving the photographed image of the movement of the actor to extract pixels having the color different from the background, detecting pixels having color and topology similar to the stored blob models with respect to the respective parts of the body to make the detected pixels into the blobs, distinguishing the blobs corresponding to the parts of the body from the correlation of the adjacent blobs with respect to the detected blob, and determining the distinguished blobs as 2-dimensional body feature points;

    a 3-dimensional feature point tracking module for performing 3-dimensionla matching with respect to the 2-dimensional feature points corresponding to the body'"'"'s end portions extracted by the 2-dimensional feature point extraction module, restoring 3-dimensional coordinates, and performing a tracking operation by predicting topology changes of the feature points and the body'"'"'s center of gravity; and

    a 3-dimensional motion restoration module for predicting a position of a middle joint using the 3-dimensional coordinates of the 2-dimensional feature points tracked by the 3-dimensional feature point tracking module, generating 3-dimensional motion data, and restoring the 3-dimensional motion data to a human model.

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