Noticing cumulative effect of noise

New project for OpenCap, which is a new software package to estimate 3D human movement dynamics from smartphone videos. OpenCap strongly relies on OpenSim.
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Riva Karia
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Noticing cumulative effect of noise

Post by Riva Karia » Sat Aug 10, 2024 3:52 pm

Hello,

I can see cumulative effect of noise after 5-6 seconds. Could you help me with more information about the noise and how to deal with it?

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Matt Petrucci
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Re: Noticing cumulative effect of noise

Post by Matt Petrucci » Tue Aug 13, 2024 12:14 pm

Hi Riva,

Can you be a bit more specific about what activity you are trying to collect, and what you are seeing in the kinematics?

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Re: Noticing cumulative effect of noise

Post by Riva Karia » Wed Aug 21, 2024 1:33 pm

Hi Matt,

The tasks i am performing are Sit to stand and walking tasks. I have noticed that after a few seconds there is accumulation of noise and is visible in the graphs.

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Re: Noticing cumulative effect of noise

Post by Matt Petrucci » Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:39 pm

Hi Riva,

There could be several causes for what you are describing. If there is a specific session that demonstrates this you can pass it along to me.

But here are a few things:

-Camera sync - if you are doing cyclic movements like gait or sit-to-stand, the algorithm can sometimes have a hard time synchronizing the videos. You can start the trial with a hand punch over head to help the algorithm synchronize.
- Camera angles - If you are in a two camera setup, you want to have them as close to 45/45 to the participant as possible to get more 3D information. A purely frontal or sagittal camera can sometimes throw off the algorithm, especially when there are occlusions.
- FOV - Make sure your participants are clearly visible at all times. Sometimes if they are too small in the FOV, the pose estimation can have a hard time seeing specific body landmarks, adding to noise.

These tips and others are on the best practices page. For setting up your FOV, I would suggest watching the beginning of the tutorial video on that page.

Hope these help,

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