Automatic Marker Registration and Prediction Algorithm for Optical Motion Capture System
TAN Guang-Hua1,2, ZHOU Mei-Lan1,2, GAO Chun-Ming1,2, LI Ren-Fa1
1College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082 2Institute of Digital Media, Hunan University, Changsha 410082
Abstract：An automatic marker registration method is proposed to solve the registration problem of scattered point-set in optical motion capture system. Firstly, the markers in the first frame are segmented to provide the initial skeleton template with the knowledge of human body topology structure. Then, according to the local rigidity property and spatio-temporal information,the registration of marker is achieved by finding the most matching point in previous frame, which does not need specifying the initial template by hand. Under the assumption that markers do not change a lot in two consecutive frames, the coordinates of missing markers are predicted by using local rigidity property of the same segment. The experimental results show that every marker can be registered quickly and accurately and the proposed method has strong robustness and real-time performance.
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