Unifying Representations and Large-Scale Whole-Body Motion Databases for Studying Human Motion

• Published in: IEEE transactions on robotics Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 796 - 809
• Main Authors: Mandery, Christian, Terlemez, Omer, Do, Martin, Vahrenkamp, Nikolaus, Asfour, Tamim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Animation; Biomechanics; Data base management; Data models; Human motion; Humanoid robots; Kinematics; Legged locomotion; Mathematical models; models of the human body; Motion measurement; Movement; Object motion; Recording; Representations; Robotics; Robots; Searching; Wearable computers; whole-body human motion databases

Large-scale human motion databases are key for research questions ranging from human motion analysis and synthesis, biomechanics of human motion, data-driven learning of motion primitives, and rehabilitation robotics to the design of humanoid robots and wearable robots such as exoskeletons. In this...