Multiscale motion saliency for keyframe extraction from motion capture sequences
Author
Halit, C.
Capin, T.
Date
2011Source Title
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
Print ISSN
1546-4261
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Volume
22
Issue
1
Pages
3 - 14
Language
English
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Abstract
Motion capture is an increasingly popular animation technique; however data acquired by motion capture can become substantial. This makes it difficult to use motion capture data in a number of applications, such as motion editing, motion understanding, automatic motion summarization, motion thumbnail generation, or motion database search and retrieval. To overcome this limitation, we propose an automatic approach to extract keyframes from a motion capture sequence. We treat the input sequence as motion curves, and obtain the most salient parts of these curves using a new proposed metric, called 'motion saliency'. We select the curves to be analysed by a dimension reduction technique, Principal Component Analysis (PCA). We then apply frame reduction techniques to extract the most important frames as keyframes of the motion. With this approach, around 8% of the frames are selected to be keyframes for motion capture sequences. © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.