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March 01, 2006

Additional Motion Tracking Software

On Monday I wrote about a demonstration by Troika Ranch which featured the EyesWeb motion tracking software program.

Here is some brief information and links for two additional motion tracking software programs - I'll be writing more in-depth about these and other motion tracking applications in the near future:

- Cyclops, from Eric Singer, is a Mac-only plug-in for the Max/MSP visual programming environment that analyzes and tracks live video. With the Cyclops Max object, you point a video camera at a dancer and then analyze the grey scale and color information from the live video feed. This data is then used by Max to control audio and video images in real-time. You can also learn more about Cyclops on the Cycling '74 website, the developers of Max/MSP.

- The second program is EyeCon from Palindrome. EyeCon is also a motion tracking software program, in this case for Windows PCs, that facilitates interactive performances and installations. By analyzing a video feed, EyeCon can track movements that can then serve to trigger specific actions such as the playing of sounds and videos. Here are some video clips featuring Emily Fernandez that show examples of EyeCon at work. (Robert Wechsler of Palindrome pointed out that some of Emily's solos use EyeCon, but most of them use a software program called Kalypso - another software program from the same engineer, Frieder Weiss.)

Posted by dougfox at March 1, 2006 10:44 AM
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