Emulating Human Perception of Motion Similarity

Jeff K. T. Tang, Howard Leung, Taku Komura and Hubert P. H. Shum
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW) - Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), 2008

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Abstract

Evaluating the similarity of motions is useful for motion retrieval, motion blending, and performance analysis of dancers and athletes. Euclidean distance between corresponding joints has been widely adopted in measuring similarity of postures and hence motions. However, such a measure does not necessarily conform to the human perception of motion similarity. In this paper, we propose a new similarity measure based on machine learning techniques. We make use of the results of questionnaires from subjects answering whether arbitrary pairs of motions appear similar or not. Using the relative distance between the joints as the basic features, we train the system to compute the similarity of arbitrary pair of motions. Experimental results show that our method outperforms methods based on Euclidean distance between corresponding joints. Our method is applicable to content-based motion retrieval of human motion for large-scale database systems. It is also applicable to e-Learning systems which automatically evaluate the performance of dancers and athletes by comparing the subjects' motions with those by experts.

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@article{tang08emulating,
 author={Tang, Jeff K. T. and Leung, Howard and Komura, Taku and Shum, Hubert P. H.},
 journal={Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds},
 title={Emulating Human Perception of Motion Similarity},
 year={2008},
 volume={19},
 number={3--4},
 pages={211--221},
 numpages={11},
 doi={10.1002/cav.v19:3/4},
 issn={1546-4261},
 publisher={John Wiley and Sons Ltd.},
 Address={Chichester, UK},
}

RIS

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Tang, Jeff K. T.
AU  - Leung, Howard
AU  - Komura, Taku
AU  - Shum, Hubert P. H.
T2  - Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
TI  - Emulating Human Perception of Motion Similarity
PY  - 2008
VL  - 19
IS  - 3--4
SP  - 211
EP  - 221
DO  - 10.1002/cav.v19:3/4
SN  - 1546-4261
PB  - John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
ER  - 

Plain Text

Jeff K. T. Tang, Howard Leung, Taku Komura and Hubert P. H. Shum, "Emulating Human Perception of Motion Similarity," Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, vol. 19, no. 3--4, pp. 211-221, John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2008.

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