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Motion Capture Tools for Developers

fairmotion is a Python library that provides tools for working with motion capture data. It handles complexities related to motion representation, transformations, file formats, and visualization, allowing users to focus on high-level learning tasks. The library includes loaders for popular motion capture formats, tools for manipulating and saving motion data, and demonstrations of using the library for tasks like motion prediction and clustering of motion capture datasets.

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Motion Capture Tools for Developers

fairmotion is a Python library that provides tools for working with motion capture data. It handles complexities related to motion representation, transformations, file formats, and visualization, allowing users to focus on high-level learning tasks. The library includes loaders for popular motion capture formats, tools for manipulating and saving motion data, and demonstrations of using the library for tasks like motion prediction and clustering of motion capture datasets.

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fairmotion provides easy-to-use interfaces and tools to work with motion capture

data. The objective of the library is to manage the complexity of motion


representation, 3D transformations, file formats and visualization, and let users
focus on high level learning tasks.

Users can take advantage of large high-quality motion capture datasets like the CMU
and AMASS datasets without deep knowledge of the domain or handling the
idiosyncrasies of individual datasets. We implement baselines for research tasks
using building blocks from the library to demonstrate its utility.

Getting Started
Installation

farmotion is available on PyPI for easy installation

pip install fairmotion

To install fairmotion from source, first clone the git repository, use pip to
download dependencies and build the project.

$ git clone [Link]


$ cd fairmotion
$ pip install -e .

Data Loading

Here, we load a motion capture file in the BVH file format in a python console.
Similarly, there are loaders to import files from ASF/AMC, AMASS and AMASS DIP
formats.

from [Link] import bvh

BVH_FILENAME = “PATH_TO_BVH_FILE”
motion = [Link](BVH_FILENAME)

Motion manipulation

The motion object can be manipulated in both modular and matrix forms. Here, we
translate the object to a fixed global position [1, 1, 1] and select a time slice
from frame 20 to frame 30.

from mocap_proceessing.ops import motion as motion_ops

translated_motion = motion_ops.translate(motion, [Link]([1, 1, 1]))


sliced_motion = motion_ops.cut(translated_motion, 10, 20)

We can perform the same operations in the matrix representation of motion.

from [Link] import Motion

# motion_matrix has shape (num_frames, num_joints, 4, 4) where 4x4 is


transformation matrix
motion_matrix = motion.to_matrix()

translation_matrix = [Link]((4, 4))


translation_matrix[3, :3] = [Link]([1, 1, 1])

translated_motion_matrix = motion_matrix + translation_matrix


sliced_motion_matrix = translated_motion_matrix[10:20]
sliced_motion = Motion.from_matrix(sliced_motion_matrix, [Link])

Data saving

We can save the manipulated motion object back into the bvh file format for us to
visualize the result.

NEW_BVH_FILENAME = "PATH_TO_NEW_BVH_FILE"
[Link](sliced_motion, NEW_BVH_FILENAME)

Visualization

We visualize the results using the bvh_visualizer tool.

$ python fairmotion/viz/bvh_visualizer.py --bvh-files $NEW_BVH_FILENAME

Tasks

The tasks module showcases practical usage of fairmotion modules as building blocks
in developing projects.

Motion Prediction
Motion Graph
Clustering of motion capture dataset
Changepoint Detection

fairmotion has been used in some form in the following works:

Jungdam Won, Deepak Gopinath, and Jessica Hodgins. “A Scalable Approach to


Control Diverse Behaviors for Physically Simulated Characters” to be presented at
SIGGRAPH 2020 [Project page with code and paper]
Tanmay Shankar, and Abhinav Gupta. "Learning Robot Skills with Temporal
Variational Inference." ICML 2020
Jungdam Won, and Jehee Lee. "Learning body shape variation in physics-based
characters." ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 2019

License

fairmotion is released under the BSD-3-Clause License.

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