Documentation Mocap Database HDM05

Preface In the past two decades, motion capture (mocap) systems have been developed that allow to track and record human motions at high spatial and temporal resolutions. The resulting motion capture data is used to analyze human motions in fields such as sports sciences and biometrics (person identification), and to synthesize realistic motion sequences in data-driven computer animation. Such applications require efficient methods and tools for the automatic analysis, synthesis and classification of motion capture data, which constitutes an active research area with many yet unsolved problems. Even though there is a rapidly growing corpus of motion capture data, the academic research community still lacks publicly available motion data, as supplied by [4], that can be freely used for systematic research on motion analysis, synthesis, and classification. Furthermore, a common dataset of annotated and well-documented motion capture data would be extremely valuable to the research community in view of an objective comparison and evaluation of the achieved research results. It is the objective of our motion capture database HDM05 1 to supply free motion capture data for research purposes. HDM05 contains more than tree hours of systematically recorded and well-documented motion capture data in the C3D as well as in the ASF/AMC data format. Furthermore, HDM05 contains for each of roughly 70 motion classes 10 to 50 realizations executed by various actors amounting to roughly 1, 500 motion clips. In this documentation, we give a detailed description of our mocap database HDM05. In Sect. 1, we provide some general information on motion capture data including references to various application fields. A detailed description of the database structure of HDM05 as well as of the content of each mocap file can be found in Sect. 2. We also provide several MATLAB tools comprising a parser for ASF/AMC and C3D as well as visualization, renaming and cutting tools, which are described in Sect. 3. Finally, Sect. 4 summarizes some facts on the mocap file formats ASF/AMC and C3D as used in our database. We appreciate any comments and suggestions for improvement. 1 The motion capture data has been recorded at the Hochschule der Medien (HDM) in the year 2005 under the supervision of Bernhard Eberhardt.