Smartphone Cameras Capture 3D Human Movement Without Special Suits
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists made a computer system called MAMMA.
- A2
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems made MAMMA.
- B1
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany have created a computer vision system.
- B2
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany and Carnegie Mellon University in the United States have created a computer vision system.
- C1
Conventional motion capture requires performers in special studios to wear tight suits covered in physical markers attached by hand.
- C2
Conventional motion capture has long asked performers to dress for the part: tight-fitting suits dotted with reflective physical markers, each attached by hand inside a dedicated studio.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- virtual
- made to exist by a computer rather than in the real world
- reflective
- sending light back from a surface so it is easy to see
- rebuild
- to build or put something together again
- predict
- to say or guess what will happen or what something is like
- accuracy
- how exact and free from mistakes something is
- manual
- done by people with their hands rather than automatically by a machine
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Max Planck Society. Read the original for the full report.