The Capture Laboratory                                                                    

A room in the Center for Information Technology has been dedicated to this project so that a static, stable capture space can be maintained.  This consistency will allow for a more coherent and reliable data set.

The room is 1025 square feet however the capture volume has a base of only 500 square feet due to equipment limitations.

  The concentric circles on the floor represent the boundaries of the capture volume.  The innermost circle designates the region of highest resolution.  In this region the markers can be triangulated to an accuracy of .756 millimeters.  This accuracy decreases exponentially as capture is attempted closer to the periphery.

    Here is a view of the data station to which the 6 cameras employed in the laboratory send their video signal.  The cameras' signals are first fed into a data hub which synchronizes the pictures.  The data is then feed through a 100 Mbps switch and routed to three 1.4 GHz machines that process and analyze the data in real time.  A capture sequence of 30 seconds can typically by processed, rendered, and labeled in under a minute.