Analysis of human micromotion in motion time series: optical marker data, body-worn accelerometers, respiration belts and force plates.
The measure the package exists for is quantity of motion — the average speed of a body part, band-limited to 0.2–10 Hz, in millimetres per second. It applies equally to all three sensor families because the shared abstraction is the frequency band, not the instrument.
pip install micromotionimport micromotion as mm
rec = mm.read("Standstill2017/mocap_data/A0001.tsv") # dispatches on content, not extension
head = rec.marker("P01")
mm.qom(head, rec.fs, kind="position").mean_mm_s| Reference documentation | how to use it, every function, the conventions |
| Wiki | why it works this way — traps, recipes, open questions |
| Changelog | what changed, and why |
New to it: Getting started, then The two bands, which is the one convention you cannot skip.
| Module | Contents |
|---|---|
qom |
quantity of motion from position or acceleration |
filters |
the band definitions, band-pass, low-pass, high-pass, cardiac notch |
resample |
rate measurement, downsample-only resampling, irregular-to-regular gridding |
validate |
checks that fail loudly on silently-wrong data |
posture, balance |
sway geometry, centre-of-pressure measures |
spectral, physio |
cardiac and respiratory peaks, band power, breathing rate |
dynamics |
DFA, multifractality, recurrence, surrogates, entropy |
group |
whether these people moved at the same moments |
align, circular |
offsets between clocks; directional statistics |
io, record |
one reader per corpus layout, a content sniffer, a common record type |
It was built while constructing a single analysis across every dataset in the Oslo Standstill Database. There were 159 analysis scripts, of which 58 defined their own band-pass filter and 37 computed quantity of motion. The project's central measure existed in dozens of copies that did not all agree, and the disagreements were invisible.
Every default here was measured rather than assumed, and the reasoning is kept beside it. The traps page lists the mistakes that shaped the design; each one happened, produced a believable wrong number, and raised nothing at the time.
Python 3.10+, numpy, scipy, pandas.
GPL-3.0-or-later. If you use it, please cite it — see CITATION.cff.