Objectives                                                                                        

    This project has two primary goals. 

First, to use 3D digital capture equipment to recreate the Muybridge experiments first conducted in 1884-1885 in three dimensions and add those recreations to the Human Identification Database, underwritten by Defense Advanced Research Project Agency.
Second, to develop algorithms that drive software that can process and identify human motion in grayscale video and three dimensional stages.

Timeline                                                                                             

May 2002:  VICON capture system delivered.  Training complete and several trial captures with the packaged VICON system completed.
June 2002:  Lab erected and calibrated.  Initial data capture of actors in three dimensions.  Tuning of capture technique and system limitations.
July 2002:  Initial reproduction of selected Muybridge experiments.
August 2002:  Testing software that will bridge the 3D data files and recognition software under development.