Simplifying Motion Capture for More Effective Research Introduction As motion tracking systems continue to evolve, so too do the complexities involved in setting up hardware for research labs that study human movement. Recent informal polling o ...
Reducing Costs and Enhancing Productivity in Research Labs
Cut Costs & Improve Efficiency with Motion Capture Solutions Introduction Launching a new research lab is a significant undertaking, with numerous costs and considerations. While we’ve detailed a comprehensive breakdown of these expenses in ...
Establishing Excellence: A Mission-driven Strategy for University Departments
Advancing University Research with Mission-Driven Motion Science Introduction In recent years, I sense the approach to building a department’s reputation is evolving. Increasingly, department leaders are adopting a mission-driven strategy, emph ...
Data Reduction & Outlier Checks: Save Time & Money…
Optimize Research with Smart Data Reduction & Accuracy Checks Introduction While the design of The MotionMonitor xGen has focused on reducing the cost and time required to run a motion capture research lab, there is one feature that has far ...
Addressing the Unique Challenges of University Research Labs
Solving Research Lab Challenges with Motion Capture Technology Introduction As the person responsible for product quality and client support at The MotionMonitor xGen, I frequently hear concerns from prospective clients that fall into two disti ...
Skip the Plates? An Evaluation of Markerless Kinetics without Force Plates.
Measure Ground Reaction Forces Accurately Without Force Plates Introduction I was reading a paper a few weeks ago by some folks at the University of Bath. They were computing the Ground Reaction Forces which were necessary to generate ...
Enhanced Video Capabilities for AI-Driven Motion Capture
AI-Powered Video Enhancements for Markerless Motion Capture Analysis The challenges of high-speed video Adding and maintaining support for multiple high-speed video cameras is one of the harder problems a software company like ours faces. Th ...
Markerless Motion Capture: An Early Experience
Unlock the Future of Motion Analysis with Markerless Tracking Introduction In our last blog, we described our history with markerless motion tracking dating back to 2009 with early shape fitting methods. We discussed the benefits w ...
Markerless Tracking in Motion Capture
Markerless Motion Capture: Precision Without Markers What is it and Why it is important? In simplest terms, “markerless tracking” is the ability to track the movement of human beings without instrumentation attached to the body. Most tr ...
COVID-19 and Equipment Cleaning
Ensuring Safe Motion Capture with Proper Equipment Cleaning How has COVID-19 Complicated Data Collection? Data collection has gotten much more complicated because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Keeping subject and researcher safe means following g ...