Advanced methods for motion capturing and analysis | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Advanced methods for motion capturing and analysis (17.IA025)

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Engineering Animation (Year: 1, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Theoretical-methodological
Scientific or art field	Design
ECTS	5

Obtaining advanced knowledge about: • motion capturing of rigid and elastic objects and complex human movements including facial expressions, • analysis, postporcessing and optimisation of captured motion

Acquiering knowladge in advanced theoretical findings and practical experience in area of motion capture and analzsis of komplex motion of objects and humans. Training and preparation for advanced work with VICON motion capture system. Familiarization with advanced algorithms for postprocessing, and data preparation for further utilization of recorded motion. Partially, the obligation on the course are conducted through the independant research work and/or literature reading in the ???? of interest. Independant research work includes familiarization with state of the art in the area and realization of applications or animation based on recorded motion

Introduction to course. Modeling of complex branched systems of rigid bodies. Redundant systems and optimization of motion. Recording and motion synthesys in dynamic unstructured environment. Recording and synthesis of other types of human motion. Recording and synthesis of facial expressions. Postprocessing and optimization methods of human movements. Application in the area of robotics, enertaintment industrz, medicine, sport, art etc.

The teaching will be given in the following form: (i) lecturing of theoretical basics, (ii) practical work in the motion capturing lab – motion recording, analysis, post processing and application, (iii) project work in cooperation with lecturers. Teaching is conducted with active participation of students, while practical part is done with motion capturing system, that includes computers, equipment and SW.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Tobon, Ricardo	The Mocap Book: A Practical Guide to the Art of Motion Capture	2010	Foris Force	English
Midori Kitagawa and Brian Windsor	MoCap for Artists: Workflow and Techniques for Motion Capture	2008	Focal Press	English
2. Huang, Thomas C., and Subhash C. Reddy	Human face motion analysis. Visual Form	1992	Springer US,	English
Aurélien Géron	Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems 1st Edition	2017	O'Reilly Media	English
Bodo Rosenhahn, Reinhard Klette , et al.	Human Motion: Understanding, Modelling, Capture, and Animation	2007	Springer	English
Alberto Menache	Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation	2010	Morgan Kaufmann	English
Kitagawa, Midori, and Brian Windsor	MoCap for artists: workflow and techniques for motion capture	2012	CRC Press	English
1. Zatsiorsky, Vladimir M.	Kinematics of human motion	1998	Human Kinetics	English
Alberto Menache	Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) 2nd Edition	2010	Morgan Kaufmann	English
Matt Liverman	The Animator's Motion Capture Guide: Organizing, Managing, Editing (Charles River Media Game Development)	2004	Charles River Media	English