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HumanEva: Synchronized Video and Motion Capture Dataset for Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion Leonid Sigal and Michael J. Black Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 CS-06-08 September 2006 HumanEva: Synchronized Video and Motion Capture Dataset for Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion Leonid Sigal Michael J. Black Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence, RI 02912 {ls,black}@ Technical Report CS-06-08 Abstract While research on articulated human motion and pose estimation has progressed rapidly in the last few years, there has been no systematic quantitative evaluation of competing methods to establish the current state of the art. Current algorithms make many different choices about how to model the human body, how to exploit image evidence and how to approach the inference problem. We argue that there is a need for common datasets that allow fair comparison between different methods and their design choices. Until recently gathering ground-truth data for evaluation of results (especially in 3D) was challenging. In this report we present a novel dataset obtained using a unique setup for capturing synchronized video and ground-truth 3D motion. Data was captured simultaneously using a calibrated marker-based motion capture system and multiple high-speed video capture systems. The video and motion capture streams were synchronized in software using a direct optimization method. The resulting