A general method for comparing the expected performance of tracking and motion capture systems

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 201-210

  Allen, B Danette ^a,b   Welch, Greg ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Covariance analysis; Information visualization; Motion capture; Sensor fusion; Tracking; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; MOTION ESTIMATION; SENSOR DATA FUSION; TRACKING (POSITION); VIRTUAL REALITY;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; MOTION CAPTURE; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 33645518240     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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