Motion Tracking without Inhibitive Markers

How can human motion tracking be made more accurate and robust?

The Panoptic Studio Lab creates a way to accurately track human motion using only cameras. This approach accurately tracks motion when multiple overlapping bodies are present and allows for free movement that past technologies, such as bulky suits and markers, have hindered. It can also capture the 3D skeletal structure and motion of a group of people engaged in social interaction. In this lab tour, Aayush Bansal, Robotics Institute PhD student, taught the scholars about the various hardware that the team uses to capture movement, and detailed some of the challenges in computer vision and computing power required to track motion quickly and accurately.

More about the Panoptic Studio:

http://domedb.perception.cs.cmu.edu/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hanbyulj/panoptic-studio/

More about PhD student and RISS Alum, Aayush Bansal:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/
https://www.ri.cmu.edu/ri-people/aayush-bansal/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=848cQhkAAAAJ&hl=en