UM SISTEMA ABERTO DE CAPTURA DE MOVIMENTO E SUAS APLICAÇÕES EM ARTES E COMUNICAÇÃO

Abstract

Motion capture is a useful technique forcharacter animation in motion pictures, games andaugmented reality. Unfortunately, most of the motioncapture systems currently available are expensive andproprietary. In face of this reality, this work presents anopen source application for optical motion capture, theOpenMoCap. The software carries out the entire pipeline foracquisition of motion data and its output in appropriateformats to commercial modeling and animation software.The defined architecture is designed for real time motionanalysis of markers. It is flexible and modular, allowing theaddition of new optimized modules for specific functions, asdifferent cameras sets and markerless motion capture.Applications in animation of a short theatrical piece, a gameand a video performance are being concluded at the presentmoment, to show the feasibility of the software to differenttypes of uses. This work is supported by CNPq andFAPEMIG.Index Terms ⎯ Augmented Reality, Character Animation,Motion Capture, Software Development.