Efficient motion search in large motion capture databases

  • Authors:
  • Yi Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waterloo

  • Venue:
  • ISVC'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Advances in Visual Computing - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Large human motion databases contain variants of natural motions that are valuable for animation generation and synthesis. But retrieving visually similar motions is still a difficult and time-consuming problem. This paper provides methods for identifying visually and numerically similar motions in a large database given a query of motion segment. We propose an efficient indexing strategy that represents the motions compactly through a preprocessing. This representation scales down the range of searching the database. Motions in this range are possible candidates of the final matches. For detailed comparisons between the query and the candidates, we propose an algorithm that compares the motions’ curves swiftly. Our methods can apply to large human motion databases and achieve high performance and accuracy compared with previous work. We present experimental results on testing a database of about 2.9 million frames, or about 27 hours of motions played at 30 Hz.