Recovering 3D human body configurations using shape contexts
Mori, G.
Malik, J.
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC;
This paper appears in: Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: July 2006
Volume: 28,
Issue: 7
On page(s): 1052-1062
ISSN: 0162-8828
INSPEC Accession Number: 9031260
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TPAMI.2006.149
Current Version Published: 2006-06-05
Abstract
The problem we consider in this paper is to take a single two-dimensional image containing a human figure, locate the joint positions, and use these to estimate the body configuration and pose in three-dimensional space. The basic approach is to store a number of exemplar 2D views of the human body in a variety of different configurations and viewpoints with respect to the camera. On each of these stored views, the locations of the body joints (left elbow, right knee, etc.) are manually marked and labeled for future use. The input image is then matched to each stored view, using the technique of shape context matching in conjunction with a kinematic chain-based deformation model. Assuming that there is a stored view sufficiently similar in configuration and pose, the correspondence process would succeed. The locations of the body joints are then transferred from the exemplar view to the test shape. Given the 2D joint locations, the 3D body configuration and pose are then estimated using an existing algorithm. We can apply this technique to video by treating each frame independently - tracking just becomes repeated recognition. We present results on a variety of data sets
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