FlashCap: Millisecond-Accurate Human Motion Capture via Flashing LEDs and Event-Based Vision

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Hauptverfasser: Wu, Zekai, Fan, Shuqi, Liu, Mengyin, Luo, Yuhua, Lin, Xincheng, Yan, Ming, Wu, Junhao, Lin, Xiuhong, Ma, Yuexin, Wen, Chenglu, Xu, Lan, Shen, Siqi, Wang, Cheng
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author Wu, Zekai
Fan, Shuqi
Liu, Mengyin
Luo, Yuhua
Lin, Xincheng
Yan, Ming
Wu, Junhao
Lin, Xiuhong
Ma, Yuexin
Wen, Chenglu
Xu, Lan
Shen, Siqi
Wang, Cheng
author_facet Wu, Zekai
Fan, Shuqi
Liu, Mengyin
Luo, Yuhua
Lin, Xincheng
Yan, Ming
Wu, Junhao
Lin, Xiuhong
Ma, Yuexin
Wen, Chenglu
Xu, Lan
Shen, Siqi
Wang, Cheng
contents Precise motion timing (PMT) is crucial for swift motion analysis. A millisecond difference may determine victory or defeat in sports competitions. Despite substantial progress in human pose estimation (HPE), PMT remains largely overlooked by the HPE community due to the limited availability of high-temporal-resolution labeled datasets. Today, PMT is achieved using high-speed RGB cameras in specialized scenarios such as the Olympic Games; however, their high costs, light sensitivity, bandwidth, and computational complexity limit their feasibility for daily use. We developed FlashCap, the first flashing LED-based MoCap system for PMT. With FlashCap, we collect a millisecond-resolution human motion dataset, FlashMotion, comprising the event, RGB, LiDAR, and IMU modalities, and demonstrate its high quality through rigorous validation. To evaluate the merits of FlashMotion, we perform two tasks: precise motion timing and high-temporal-resolution HPE. For these tasks, we propose ResPose, a simple yet effective baseline that learns residual poses based on events and RGBs. Experimental results show that ResPose reduces pose estimation errors by ~40% and achieves millisecond-level timing accuracy, enabling new research opportunities. The dataset and code will be shared with the community.
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spellingShingle FlashCap: Millisecond-Accurate Human Motion Capture via Flashing LEDs and Event-Based Vision
Wu, Zekai
Fan, Shuqi
Liu, Mengyin
Luo, Yuhua
Lin, Xincheng
Yan, Ming
Wu, Junhao
Lin, Xiuhong
Ma, Yuexin
Wen, Chenglu
Xu, Lan
Shen, Siqi
Wang, Cheng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Precise motion timing (PMT) is crucial for swift motion analysis. A millisecond difference may determine victory or defeat in sports competitions. Despite substantial progress in human pose estimation (HPE), PMT remains largely overlooked by the HPE community due to the limited availability of high-temporal-resolution labeled datasets. Today, PMT is achieved using high-speed RGB cameras in specialized scenarios such as the Olympic Games; however, their high costs, light sensitivity, bandwidth, and computational complexity limit their feasibility for daily use. We developed FlashCap, the first flashing LED-based MoCap system for PMT. With FlashCap, we collect a millisecond-resolution human motion dataset, FlashMotion, comprising the event, RGB, LiDAR, and IMU modalities, and demonstrate its high quality through rigorous validation. To evaluate the merits of FlashMotion, we perform two tasks: precise motion timing and high-temporal-resolution HPE. For these tasks, we propose ResPose, a simple yet effective baseline that learns residual poses based on events and RGBs. Experimental results show that ResPose reduces pose estimation errors by ~40% and achieves millisecond-level timing accuracy, enabling new research opportunities. The dataset and code will be shared with the community.
title FlashCap: Millisecond-Accurate Human Motion Capture via Flashing LEDs and Event-Based Vision
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19770