Scalable and compact representation for motion capture data using tensor decomposition

Motion capture (mocap) technology is widely used in movie and game industries. Compact representation of the mocap data is critical to efficient storage and transmission. In this letter, we propose a novel tensor decomposition based scheme for compact and progressive representation of the mocap data. Our method segments and stacks the mocap sequence locally, and generates a 3rd-order tensor, which has strong correlation within and across slices of the tensor. Then, our method iteratively applies tensor decomposition in a multi-layer structure to explore the correlation characteristic. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms existing algorithms in terms of scalability and storage requirement. © 1994-2012 IEEE.