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Choosing appropriate marker placements

Markers have to be placed carefully on moving bodies to ensure that motion is captured effectively.

Markers have to be placed carefully on moving bodies to ensure that motion is captured effectively. How do you decide where to place your markers? What marker sizes should you use? How do you attach them to a body so that they don’t fall off?

In this video, Laura and Mari talk about placing markers to capture different kinds of motion. They discuss some of the challenges that they have had with marker placement in their research.

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Motion Capture: The Art of Studying Human Activity

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