UMONS-TAICHI: A multimodal motion capture dataset of expertise in Taijiquan gestures.

In this article, we present a large 3D motion capture dataset of Taijiquan martial art gestures ( = 2200 samples) that includes 13 classes (relative to Taijiquan techniques) executed by 12 participants of various skill levels. Participants levels were ranked by three experts on a scale of [0-10]. The dataset was captured using two motion capture systems simultaneously: 1) Qualisys, a sophisticated optical motion capture system of 11 cameras that tracks 68 retroreflective markers at 179 Hz, and 2) Microsoft Kinect V2, a low-cost markerless time-of-flight depth sensor that tracks 25 locations of a person׳s skeleton at 30 Hz.

Robust and automatic motion-capture data recovery using soft skeleton constraints and model averaging.

Motion capture allows accurate recording of human motion, with applications in many fields, including entertainment, medicine, sports science and human computer interaction. A common difficulty with this technology is the occurrence of missing data, due to occlusions, or recording conditions. Various models have been proposed to estimate missing data.