Introduction As motion tracking systems continue to evolve, so too do the complexities involved in setting up hardware for research labs that study human movement. Recent informal polling of both current and prospective clients revealed a growing ...
Introduction Launching a new motion capture research lab is a significant undertaking, with numerous costs and considerations. While we’ve detailed a comprehensive breakdown of these expenses in the appendix, we want to highlight how ou ...
Introduction In recent years, I sense the approach to building a department’s reputation is evolving. Increasingly, department leaders responsible for motion capture research labs are adopting a mission-driven strategy, emphasizing a clear purpos ...
Introduction While the design of The MotionMonitor xGen has focused on reducing the cost and time required to run a motion capture research lab, there is one feature that has far and away the biggest impact. It is Data Reduction and the abi ...
Introduction As the person responsible for product quality and client support at The MotionMonitor xGen, I frequently hear concerns from prospective clients that fall into two distinct categories. On one side, there are large departments at major ...
Introduction I was reading a paper a few weeks ago by some folks at the University of Bath. They were computing the Ground Reaction Forces which were necessary to generate the observed motion of the Body Center of Mass (BCOM) using forward ...
The challenges of high-speed video Adding and maintaining support for multiple high-speed video cameras is one of the harder problems a software company like ours faces. The high demands on microprocessors, the need for precision timing, the vari ...
Introduction In our last blog, we described our history with markerless motion tracking dating back to 2009 with early shape fitting methods. We discussed the benefits we saw with AI based tracking methods and, our view of the futu ...
What is it and Why it is important? In simplest terms, “markerless tracking” is the ability to track the movement of human beings without instrumentation attached to the body. Most traditional tracking technologies involve attaching reflecti ...
Introduction Since the early 1990’s there have been significant advances in hardware to track and measure human motion. Cameras, electro-magnetic trackers, and inertial measurement units to track the position and orientation of the body; EMG ...
