Cartwheel introduces webcam-based motion capture system
Cartwheel has introduced a webcam-based motion capture system that estimates human body landmarks and poses from ordinary video. The approach uses physical markers on subjects and standard web cameras to generate skeletal overlays and 3D mannequin reconstructions for movements such as squatting and walking. It supports multi-person tracking, scale awareness, and camera pose estimation without requiring $100k studio equipment. Co-founder and chief scientist Andrew Carr presented the technology and invited user feedback.
#263Andrew Carr 🤸@ANDREW_N_CARRThe term "markerless" gets thrown around a lot in motion capture. What does it mean? Well...surprise! There are still markers (we put them on you instead of you getting in a suit)
When we capture motion from your videos, we still need to estimate important landmarks, we've just built a way to do it on a web camera instead of a $100k mocap stage.
Multi person + scale aware with extremely good camera pose estimation.
Try it out and let me know what you think
@andrew_n_carr very cool
Andrew Carr 🤸@andrew_n_carrThe term "markerless" gets thrown around a lot in motion capture. What does it mean? Well...surprise! There are still markers (we put them on you instead of you getting in a suit) When we capture motion from your videos, we still need to estimate important landmarks, we've just built a way to do it on a web camera instead of a $100k mocap stage. Multi person + scale aware with extremely good camera pose estimation. Try it out and let me know what you think
@andrew_n_carr very cool!
Andrew Carr 🤸@andrew_n_carrThe term "markerless" gets thrown around a lot in motion capture. What does it mean? Well...surprise! There are still markers (we put them on you instead of you getting in a suit) When we capture motion from your videos, we still need to estimate important landmarks, we've just built a way to do it on a web camera instead of a $100k mocap stage. Multi person + scale aware with extremely good camera pose estimation. Try it out and let me know what you think