Vienna Horse Data Collection
Welcome
Vienna Horse Data Collection (VHDC) offers free web access to large collections of motion sequences from quadrupedal animals in different motion classes.
Motion capturing has become a standard technique in computer graphics and biomechanics. Horse locomotion has been recorded in different environments and this has been successfully used in horse biomechanical experiments. There is an increasing interest to acquire and analyze horse motion data.
This collection has been set up with the aim to supply real horse data to interested researchers of a large range of scientific disciplines. The use of the database is open to everyone. As more data will be added, future sensor technologies will be employed and therefore the database will both lengthen and widen. The in depth study of horse locomotion has been the corner stone for basic research questions, such as neuromuscular control of locomotion, as well as for robotics and animations.
We, the people behind this database, would be happy to see it used for work spanning citizen science, student's projects, as well as high level research. In this time and age, the interaction between the scientific disciplines have become more and more intricate, and they have grown from interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary teams that are dealing with the most complex questions.
This dataset is therefore meant as our contribution to further the links between researchers with diverging interests, that have the necessity to use horse data but are without the opportunity to obtain such data sets by carrying out their own motion capture.
As you may have seen, all the datasets have been used for research publications, or are currently being used for such by one or more of us. However, the ideas and the creativity of you will identify many new ways of looking at this data and/or employing it.
We wish you the best results with your work using this dataset.
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Vienna Horse Data Collection (VHDC) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.