Real-time tracking and reproduction of 3D human body motion

Author

Colombo, Carlo ; Del Bimbo, Alberto ; Valli, Alessandro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Inf., Florence Univ., Italy

fYear

2001

Firstpage

108

Lastpage

112

Abstract

Non-intrusive human body tracking is a key issue in advanced human-computer interaction, with key applications ranging from virtual reality to videoconferencing and telepresence. This paper describes a system for vision-based tracking of body posture. The system is explicitly designed to provide a robust yet simple and inexpensive solution to real-time body tracking through a careful choice of visual and kinematic models. Human posture representation is fully compatible with the MPEG-4 standard. Results of system application to a computer graphics scenario (animation of 3D avatars) are presented and discussed

Keywords

computer animation; computer vision; tracking; user interfaces; virtual reality; 3D avatar animation; 3D human body motion; MPEG-4 standard; body posture; computer graphics; human posture representation; human-computer interaction; kinematic models; non-intrusive human body tracking; real-time tracking; virtual reality; vision-based tracking; visual models; Application software; Computer graphics; Humans; Kinematics; MPEG 4 Standard; Real time systems; Robustness; Teleconferencing; Tracking; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Analysis and Processing, 2001. Proceedings. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Palermo

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1183-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIAP.2001.956993

Filename

956993