[Bf-committers] Interested in GSoC project about motion capture data

[Campbell Barton]

IMHO improving the workflow for motion capture data is a nice project,
though I'm not sure of all the tools you'd need and whats expected for
this workflow.

In most cases I think you would not actually want to use the imported
rig, so rig re-targeting could be a good focus for this project.
Animation curve simplification is important too but not as hard to add
(wrote some functions for this but more focused on freehand drawing).

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Christopher Cherrett
<ccherrett at openoctave.org> wrote:
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> Subject: [Bf-committers] Interested in GSoC project about motion capture
> data
> From: Yumei Wang <yumeiw86 at gmail.com>
> To: bf-committers at blender.org
> Date: 03/20/10 01:13
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am interested in the idea "Improve blender for dealing with motion
>> capture data". I'm a graduate student doing research on motion
>> synthesis based on motion capture data. I think this project is quite
>> related to my research. I once do a small project of motion blending
>> using BVH motion data.
>>
>> Following is my understanding about the features mentioned in the idea:
>>
>> Curve simplification for mo-cap data: we can use a smaller set of key
>> frames to represent the original mo-cap data. Users can edit the
>> motion with these key frames. So the problem here is how to sample
>> these key frames to fit the original motion data.
>>
>> Turn repetitive motion into loops: a simple example is generate
>> walking motion of any length with one walking cycle. The problem here
>> is to find the repetitive pattern of  motion from the mo-cap data.
>>
>> Not sure if I get it correctly or not? Any suggestions or information
>> is welcome.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> Yumei Wang
>> School of Computing,
>> National University of Singapore.
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> +1 I would love to see improved tools for motion capture.
>
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