A biologically inspired latent space for gait parameterization.

The problem of character locomotion synthesis is notorious for its high dimensionality and the nonlinear relationship between dimensions. However, many human motion activities lie intrinsically on low dimensional manifolds [Safonova et al. 2004] leading to significant data redundancy. Linear and non--linear methods for dimension reduction have been applied to the problem, but none of the existing approaches for dimensional reduction provide a physically--justified explanation for selected dimensions, instead they use general methods which employ numerical error analysis.