motiondescribed

Motiondescribed is a term used to denote the practice of describing motion events in text or structured data. In its broad sense, it covers how moving entities are depicted over time and through space, including dynamics of speed, direction, and posture. The term appears in fields such as linguistics, computer vision, robotics, and animation design to discuss both descriptive narratives and formal representations of movement.

Core elements of motiondescribed include temporal progression (the timing and duration of actions), spatial trajectory (the path followed by actors), kinematics (velocity, acceleration, rhythm), and perspective (whose viewpoint governs the description). A complete motiondescribed communicates not only the motion path but also causal relations, goals, and the intentions behind actions.

Methods for producing motiondescribed range from natural language generation based on motion data to structured schemas that encode movement as sequences of events or actions. In computer science, this intersects with video captioning, action recognition, and script generation for animation. In linguistics, researchers examine how verbs, aspect, and event structure encode motion details.

Applications include automated video accessibility descriptions, robotic instruction and planning, narrative generation for games and films, and cognitive research on scene perception. Example: "A cyclist accelerates from the starting gate, rounds a bend, and slows to a stop at the junction."

See also: motion description, event semantics, video captioning, action recognition.