Welcome to the Carnegie Mellon University Motion Capture Database!
This dataset of motions is free for all uses. Search above by subject # or motion category. Check out the "Info" tab for information on the mocap process, the "FAQs" for miscellaneous questions about our dataset, or the "Tools" page for code to work with mocap data. Enjoy!

NEW! The Quality of Life Grand Challenge: Kitchen Capture dataset is now up.
This capture of kitchen activities includes mocap, microphones, accelerometers, and more: http://kitchen.cs.cmu.edu.

NEW! Check out the "Info" tab above for an extended explanation of motion capture file formats, and our motion capture setup.
We've also added new "Tools" for working with both .asf/.amc and Vicon's .vsk/.v files.

Please don't crawl this database! Check out our FAQs.

Use this data! This data is free for use in research and commercial projects worldwide.
If you publish results obtained using this data, we would appreciate it
if you would send the citation to your published paper to jkh+mocap@cs.cmu.edu,
and also would add this text to your acknowledgments section:
The data used in this project was obtained from mocap.cs.cmu.edu.
The database was created with funding from NSF EIA-0196217.

Note: In this database, the same person may appear under more than one subject number.
Each subject, however, has its own calibrated skeleton.

Note: When browsing for motions, start with the higher numbered subjects first.
The lower numbers contain some of our earliest motion capture sessions, and may not be as high quality.

Note: The "toe" and "hand" joints in our motions tend to be noisy, and may require some smoothing.
The "finger" and "thumb" joints are added to the skeleton for editing convenience
- we do not actually capture these joints' motions and any such data should be ignored.