Practical methods of optimization; (2nd ed.)
Practical methods of optimization; (2nd ed.)
The visual analysis of human movement: a survey
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
A survey of computer vision-based human motion capture
Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Modeling people toward vision-based underatanding of a person's shape, appearance, and movement
Numerical Recipes in C++: the art of scientific computing
Numerical Recipes in C++: the art of scientific computing
Facts, Conjectures, and Improvements for Simulated Annealing
Facts, Conjectures, and Improvements for Simulated Annealing
Human Body Model Acquisition and Tracking Using Voxel Data
International Journal of Computer Vision
Pose Estimation of a 2-D Articulated Object from Its Silhouette Using a GA
ICPR '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Volume 3
Free-viewpoint video of human actors
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers
Gaze Manipulation for One-to-one Teleconferencing
ICCV '03 Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision - Volume 2
Performance enhancement of evolutionary search for structural topology optimisation
Finite Elements in Analysis and Design
An Adaptive Appearance Model Approach for Model-based Articulated Object Tracking
CVPR '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Volume 1
Motion Analysis for the Standing Long Jump
ICDCSW '06 Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International ConferenceWorkshops on Distributed Computing Systems
A survey of advances in vision-based human motion capture and analysis
Computer Vision and Image Understanding - Special issue on modeling people: Vision-based understanding of a person's shape, appearance, movement, and behaviour
An evolutionary approach for pose determination and interpretation of occluded articulated objects
CEC '02 Proceedings of the Evolutionary Computation on 2002. CEC '02. Proceedings of the 2002 Congress - Volume 02
Dynamics and stability of the sampling distribution of particle swarm optimisers via moment analysis
Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications - Particle Swarms: The Second Decade
A Factored Approach to Subdivision Surfaces
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Guest Editorial Special Issue on Particle Swarm Optimization
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
The fully informed particle swarm: simpler, maybe better
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Three-dimensional image processing in the future of immersive media
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Stereo-based environment scanning for immersive telepresence
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Markerless human articulated tracking using hierarchical particle swarm optimisation
Image and Vision Computing
Multiple view human articulated tracking using charting and particle swarm optimisation
Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on 3D video processing
Articulated body motion tracking by combined particle swarm optimization and particle filtering
ICCVG'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Computer vision and graphics: Part I
Markerless articulated human body tracking from multi-view video with GPU-PSO
ICES'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Evolvable systems: from biology to hardware
A multiple camera system with real-time volume reconstruction for articulated skeleton pose tracking
MMM'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Advances in multimedia modeling - Volume Part I
GPU-based asynchronous particle swarm optimization
Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Evaluation of parallel particle swarm optimization algorithms within the CUDATM architecture
Information Sciences: an International Journal
EvoApplicatons'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation - Volume Part I
A Self-Training Approach for Visual Tracking and Recognition of Complex Human Activity Patterns
International Journal of Computer Vision
Differential evolution based human body pose estimation from point clouds
Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Particle Swarm Optimization and Differential Evolution for model-based object detection
Applied Soft Computing
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In this paper we address the problem of human body pose estimation from still images. A multi-view set of images of a person sitting at a table is acquired and the pose estimated. Reliable and efficient pose estimation from still images represents an important part of more complex algorithms, such as tracking human body pose in a video sequence, where it can be used to automatically initialise the tracker on the first frame. The quality of the initialisation influences the performance of the tracker in the subsequent frames. We formulate the body pose estimation as an analysis-by-synthesis optimisation algorithm, where a generic 3D human body model is used to illustrate the pose and the silhouettes extracted from the images are used as constraints. A simple test with gradient descent optimisation run from randomly selected initial positions in the search space shows that a more powerful optimisation method is required. We investigate the suitability of the Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) for solving this problem and compare its performance with an equivalent algorithm using Simulated Annealing (SA). Our tests show that the PSO outperforms the SA in terms of accuracy and consistency of the results, as well as speed of convergence.