Proceedings IEEE Nonrigid and Articulated Motion Workshop

The topics of the papers encompass computer vision techniques for human motion analysis and understanding, methods for object segmentation, computer graphics methods for modeling and animation of articulated objects, and medical image analysis techniques. The above topics, even though they do not cover all aspects of nonrigid and articulated motion, clearly demonstrate a growing interest in this area. In the years to come this interest will accelerate and new theories and methods will be developed which will allow the efficient solution of difficult open problems in computer vision, graphics and medical image analysis. Among the exciting applications of these new methods will be the tracking and understanding of actions by multiple humans, the real-time prediction and interpretation of atmospheric processes for meteorology applications, the real-time animation, control and behavior modeling of living organisms, the modeling and motion analysis of internal organs, the development of surgical simulators, and the assessment of athlete fitness from video input