arXiv:2511.11713cs.CYcs.CV2025-11

分析41个动作捕捉数据集,发现老年人动作样本严重不足且模拟不真实。

Understanding the Representation of Older Adults in Motion Capture Locomotion Datasets

  • 调研41个公开数据集,仅8个含真实老年人动作
  • 老式行走动作多过度控制,无法真实反映衰老特征
  • 提出量化评估方法,可检验动作模拟的年龄真实性

物联网传感器广泛用于捕捉人类步态,支持活动识别、姿态估计和跌倒检测等应用。动作捕捉(MoCap)系统常被用于为可穿戴或环境传感器数据训练模型提供真实标注,并已证明在合成此类模态数据方面有效。然而,现有动作捕捉步态数据集中对老年人——这一日益重要的医疗人群——的代表性尚未得到充分考察。本研究调查了41个公开可用的数据集,发现其中仅有8个包含真实老年人的动作,另有4个包含年轻人模仿老年步态的数据。总体而言,老年人在数据集中占比极低,且多数缺乏完整的全身运动数据。为评估老式步态动作的真实性,引入定量指标,将高保真度定义为能捕捉与正常步态相比的年龄相关差异。基于对年龄敏感、抗噪声、适应数据稀缺性的步态参数分析发现,老式步态常呈现过度控制特征,未能真实体现衰老影响。这些结果凸显了改进老年人动作数据表征的必要性,并建立了一种量化评估老式步态质量的方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The Internet of Things (IoT) sensors have been widely employed to capture human locomotions to enable applications such as activity recognition, human pose estimation, and fall detection. Motion capture (MoCap) systems are frequently used to generate ground truth annotations for human poses when training models with data from wearable or ambient sensors, and have been shown to be effective to synthesize data in these modalities. However, the representation of older adults, an increasingly important demographic in healthcare, in existing MoCap locomotion datasets has not been thoroughly examined. This work surveyed 41 publicly available datasets, identifying eight that include older adult motions and four that contain motions performed by younger actors annotated as old style. Older adults represent a small portion of participants overall, and few datasets provide full-body motion data for this group. To assess the fidelity of old-style walking motions, quantitative metrics are introduced, defining high fidelity as the ability to capture age-related differences relative to normative walking. Using gait parameters that are age-sensitive, robust to noise, and resilient to data scarcity, we found that old-style walking motions often exhibit overly controlled patterns and fail to faithfully characterize aging. These findings highlight the need for improved representation of older adults in motion datasets and establish a method to quantitatively evaluate the quality of old-style walking motions.

动作捕捉老龄化数据集分析

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