Human Body-Parts Tracking for Fine-Grained Behavior Classification

This paper discusses the usefulness of human body-parts tracking for acquiring subtle cues in social interactions. While many kinds of body-parts tracking algorithms have been proposed, we focus on particle filtering-based tracking using prior models, which have several advantages for researches on social interactions. As a first step for extracting subtle cues from videos of social interaction behaviors, the advantages, disadvantages, and prospective properties of the body-parts tracking using prior models are summarized with actual results.