Motion Key-frames extraction based on amplitude of distance characteristic curve

AbstractThe key frames extraction technique extracts key postures to describe the original motion sequence, which has been widely used in motion compression, motion retrieval, motion edition and so on. In this paper, we propose a method based on the amplitude of curve to find key frames in a motion captured sequence. First we select a group of joint distance features to represent the motion and adopt the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method to obtain the one dimension principal component as a features curve which will be used. Then we gain the initial key-frames by extracting the local optimum points in the curve. At last, we get the final key frames by inserting frames based on the amplitude of the curve and merging key frames too close. A number of experimental examples demonstrate that our method is practicable and efficient not only in the visual performance but also in the aspect of the compression ratio and error rate.

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