Fully automatic optical motion tracking using an inverse kinematics approach

Optical motion tracking systems often require a lot of manual work to generate clean labeled trajectories. This can be a deterrent if the goal is the creation of large motion tracking datasets. Especially in the case of hand tracking, issues of occlusion (often self-occlusion by other fingers) make the post-processing task very difficult and time intensive. We introduce a fully automatic optical motion tracking method that utilizes a model based inverse kinematics approach. The Hungarian method is used to efficiently calculate associations between model markers and motion capture markers and we demonstrate an elegant solution to the problem of occlusions using a posture interpolation step.