II-EN: Synchronous Multi-Sensor Human Motion Acquisition Facility

“这项奖励是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。”该项目的目标是建立一个最先进的人体运动采集设备，能够使用同步多传感器阵列捕获人体运动数据。它包括必要的硬件和软件来同时捕捉人类表现的多模态方面，包括人类运动、地面反作用力、视频数据、肌肉激活模式、心率、温度、眼球运动等。重要的是，所有数据都是相互同步的。该设施使研究人员能够探索人体运动合成的新领域。特别是，捕获的数据用于研究人类动作的新颖紧凑表示，并开发新的算法来有效地合成单个角色和人群的详细逼真动作。这些数据还用于构建、动画化和填充虚拟世界。该设施还极大地促进了宾夕法尼亚大学现有的计算机图形学学位课程（博士、硕士、本科生和暑期高中生）。这些设施的使用是这些课程中不可或缺的一部分。目前，还没有广泛的、公开的、高质量的人体运动数据数据库与其他传感器的数据同步。我们在这个项目中获得的所有数据都将公开。因此，该设施将使新的研究范围从计算机动画中的人体运动合成到残疾人的医学研究，再到研究新的模拟器。因此，它将促进跨学科研究。该设施还将使宾夕法尼亚大学的计算机图形学课程更加令人兴奋，并将有助于吸引更多女性进入计算机科学领域。

"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)."The objective of this project is to build a state-of-the-art Human Motion Acquisition Facility capable of capturing human motion data using an array of synchronized multiple sensors. It includes hardware and software necessary to capture simultaneously multi-modal aspects of human performance including human movement, ground reaction forces, video data, muscle activation patterns, heart rate, temperature, eye movement, etc. Importantly, all the data is synchronized with each other.The facility enables researchers to explore new frontiers in human motion synthesis. In particular, the captured data is used to study novel compact representations of human motions and to develop new algorithms to efficiently synthesize detailed realistic motions of a single character and crowds. The data is also used to build, animate and populate virtual worlds. The facility also greatly benefits existing computer graphics degree programs at UPenn (Ph.D, Masters, Undergraduate, and summer high school students). The use of the facility is an integral part of the curriculum in these programs.Currently, there are no extensive, publicly available, high quality databases of human motion data synchronized with data from other sensors. All the data we obtain in this project will be made publicly available. The facility will therefore enable new research ranging from human motion synthesis in computer animation to medical studies of people with disabilities to researching novel simulators. As a result, it will foster inter-disciplinary research. The facility will also make computer graphics programs at UPenn even more exciting and will help in attracting more women to computer science.