Human Motion Capture Data Tailored Transform Coding
Junhui Hou, Lap-Pui Chau, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Ying He

TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel transform coding method specifically designed for human mocap data, leveraging unique data features to achieve superior compression performance and efficiency.
Contribution
The paper presents a mocap-specific transform coding algorithm that segments data, computes data-dependent bases, and outperforms existing methods without requiring training.
Findings
Significantly better compression ratios than state-of-the-art methods.
Lower computational cost and easy extension to mocap databases.
No need for training or complex parameter tuning.
Abstract
Human motion capture (mocap) is a widely used technique for digitalizing human movements. With growing usage, compressing mocap data has received increasing attention, since compact data size enables efficient storage and transmission. Our analysis shows that mocap data have some unique characteristics that distinguish themselves from images and videos. Therefore, directly borrowing image or video compression techniques, such as discrete cosine transform, does not work well. In this paper, we propose a novel mocap-tailored transform coding algorithm that takes advantage of these features. Our algorithm segments the input mocap sequences into clips, which are represented in 2D matrices. Then it computes a set of data-dependent orthogonal bases to transform the matrices to frequency domain, in which the transform coefficients have significantly less dependency. Finally, the compression is…
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Taxonomy
TopicsVideo Analysis and Summarization · Human Pose and Action Recognition · Advanced Vision and Imaging
