Body-mounted cameras turn motion capture inside out
Monday, August 8, 2011 - 13:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Traditional motion capture techniques use cameras to meticulously record the movements of actors inside studios, enabling those movements to be translated into digital models. But by turning the cameras around mounting almost two dozen, outward-facing cameras on the actors themselves scientists at Disney Research, Pittsburgh (DRP), and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have shown that motion capture can occur almost anywhere in natural environments, over large areas and outdoors.