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micromotion

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 micromotion
import 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

Documentation

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.

What is in it

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

Why it exists

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.

Requirements

Python 3.10+, numpy, scipy, pandas.

Licence

GPL-3.0-or-later. If you use it, please cite it — see CITATION.cff.

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