Learning the alphabet of rhythmic motion
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Chu, Jonathan H. (Jonathan Hui-Suen), 1980-
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Jovan PopoviÄ.
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Movement recorded from motion capture can be decomposed along two separate dimensions. It can be divided into shorter units of motion with respect to time. Secondly, a movement can also be decomposed into a base motion and a motion texture. We define the term, basic movement, to reflect properties from both of these decompositions of movement; it adheres to the atomic length property in time and also describes the baseline graph of a motion. We additionally define the terms, alphabet, as the complete set of all distinct basic movements in a motion database, and grammar rules as the set of all frequently occurring sequences of the basic movements. Determining the alphabet and the grammar of a motion capture database assists in addressing the organizational issues plaguing the process of motion capture, as well as provides a notational representation of motion. In this thesis, we introduce a method for determining the alphabet and grammar of rhythmic motion.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-47). This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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2003Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.