Inertial Motion Capture Data in Matlab

We have a growing number of clients who are choosing to carry out further analysis on their motion capture data using MathWorks MATLAB software.

Once motion capture data has been recorded in BVH format using an Animazoo motion capture system it can now be easily imported into Matlab for analysis.

MATLAB provides tools to analyse, and visualise data, enabling you to gain insight into your data in a fraction of the time it would take using spread sheets or traditional programming languages.  MATLAB allows users to share results through plots and reports and, on top of this, one great feature of MATLAB is that its functionality can be greatly expanded by the addition of toolboxes. 

These are sets of functions that provide more specialised functionality.  As an example, the toolbox 'MOCAP0p136' (created by Neil Lawrence of Sheffield University) can be used to load up BVH data captured inside Animazoo's native software.

This toolbox allows MATLAB to read in and write BVH files. There are also routines for visualising the files in MATLAB.

By clarifying the pipeline required for reading and writing Animazoo Motion Capture data in MATLAB, we hope to help our customers get a deeper insight into the movement data they have recorded which will lead to successful projects.

For further information on this workflow or to discuss how MATLAB could help you in your project then please contact us on support@animazoo.com