Top 17 motion-capture Open-Source Projects

1. EasyMocap

   1 4 3,975 3.9 Python

   Make human motion capture easier.

   

2. Judoscale

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3. Low-Cost-Mocap

   2 2 1,905 7.5 TypeScript

   Low cost motion capture system for room scale tracking

   

4. ESP32-CAM_MJPEG2SD

   3 1 1,122 9.0 C++

   ESP32 Camera motion capture application to record JPEGs to SD card as AVI files and stream to browser as MJPEG. If a microphone is installed then a WAV file is also created. Files can be uploaded via FTP or downloaded to browser.

   

5. SystemAnimatorOnline

   4 9 1,033 7.7 JavaScript

   XR Animator, AI-based Full Body Motion Capture and Extended Reality (XR) solution, powered by System Animator Online

   

6. awesome-biomechanics

   5 4 826 2.1

   A curated, public list of resources for biomechanics and human motion analysis: datasets, processing tools, software for simulation, educational videos, lectures, etc.

   

   Project mention: A curated repository of biomechanical resources | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-04

7. amass

   6 1 752 0.0 Jupyter Notebook

   Data preparation and loader for AMASS (by nghorbani)

   

8. metrabs

   7 1 502 3.4 Python

   Estimate absolute 3D human poses from RGB images.

   

9. CodeRabbit

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10. MegaMocapVR

    8 8 393 6.2

    A SteamVR powered mocap solution for Unreal Engine

    

11. xrmocap

    9 1 360 6.1 Python

    OpenXRLab Multi-view Motion Capture Toolbox and Benchmark

    

12. AvatarPoser

    10 3 307 3.4 Python

    Official Code for ECCV 2022 paper "AvatarPoser: Articulated Full-Body Pose Tracking from Sparse Motion Sensing"

    

13. openbiomechanics

    11 1 243 6.5 Jupyter Notebook

    The open source initiative for anonymized, elite-level athletic motion capture data. Run by Driveline Baseball.

    

14. KinectMocap4Blender

    12 1 200 0.0 Python

    A Kinect motion capture plugin for Blender

    

15. ViRe

    13 5 199 7.9 C#

    A open-source VR mocap studio built in Unity

    

16. MoCapAct

    14 1 187 5.0 Python

    A Multi-Task Dataset for Simulated Humanoid Control

    

17. blender-retarget

    15 1 155 10.0 Python

    Applies animation from one armature to another

    

18. OpenISS

    16 1 22 5.7 C

    OpenISS -- a unified multimodal motion data delivery framework.

    

19. rerun-animation

    17 1 21 8.5 Python

    ➿A rerun plugin and tools for 3D animation

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Rerun-animation – a 3D animation plugin for Rerun | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-20

20. InfluxDB

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