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ferent areas. Following are the reasons whch are responsible for popularity of motion<br />

capture:<br />

1. Impractical or dangerous situations in real life can be simulated very easily with<br />

motion capture.<br />

2. Scenes which involve lots of resources and are expensive to perform can be done<br />

easily with mocap.<br />

3. Realistic human movements and interactions, weight and exchange of forces<br />

which might be complex to generate can be created in a accurate manner using<br />

mocap.<br />

4. It reduces the time of animation compared to keyframing and hence its gaining<br />

more popularity in entertainment industry.<br />

5. Mocap can be cost and time effective as large amounts of animation data can<br />

be produced within a given time when compared to traditional animation tech-<br />

niques.<br />

6. Mocap is very useful in medical science as it provides a realistic movement or<br />

reactions of a patient. Virtual surgery, diagnosis, and other innovations in the<br />

medical field can rely on mocap.<br />

B.2.2 How is it done?<br />

Motion capture using optical systems is performed in the following steps:<br />

• Studio set-up: A capture room is set usually using 8 cameras and can go up to<br />

24 cameras for multiple captures.<br />

• Camera Calibration: Cameras are calibrated to provide overlapping projections.<br />

An initial estimation about the relative position and orientation of the cameras<br />

is made and then iteratively refined until convergence is achieved.<br />

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