{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/human-motion-capture-using-a-drone","title":"Human Motion Capture Using a Drone","arxiv_id":"1804.06112","date":"2018-04-17","proceeding":null,"authors":["Xiaowei Zhou","Sikang Liu","Georgios Pavlakos","Vijay Kumar","Kostas Daniilidis"],"abstract":"Current motion capture (MoCap) systems generally require markers and multiple\ncalibrated cameras, which can be used only in constrained environments. In this\nwork we introduce a drone-based system for 3D human MoCap. The system only\nneeds an autonomously flying drone with an on-board RGB camera and is usable in\nvarious indoor and outdoor environments. A reconstruction algorithm is\ndeveloped to recover full-body motion from the video recorded by the drone. We\nargue that, besides the capability of tracking a moving subject, a flying drone\nalso provides fast varying viewpoints, which is beneficial for motion\nreconstruction. We evaluate the accuracy of the proposed system using our new\nDroCap dataset and also demonstrate its applicability for MoCap in the wild\nusing a consumer drone.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06112v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.06112v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"human-motion-capture-using-a-drone","repo_url":"https://github.com/daniilidis-group/drocap","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1804.06112","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}