First Sight: A Human Body Outline Labeling System
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Pfinder: Real-Time Tracking of the Human Body
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
The visual analysis of human movement: a survey
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
A Flexible New Technique for Camera Calibration
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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 Pascal: The Art of Scientific Computing
Numerical Recipes in Pascal: The Art of Scientific Computing
Advanced In-Plane Rotation-Invariant Correlation Filters
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
3-D model-based tracking of humans in action: a multi-view approach
CVPR '96 Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '96)
Human Motion Analysis: A Review
NAM '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Workshop on Motion of Non-Rigid and Articulated Objects (NAM '97)
Local orientation analysis in images by means of the Hermite transform
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Two-dimensional matched filtering for motion estimation
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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A markerless computer vision technique specifically designed to track natural elements on the human body surface is presented. The method implements the estimate of translation, rotation, and scaling by means of a maximum likelihood approach carried out in the Gauss-Laguerre transform domain. The approach is particularly suitable for human movement analysis in clinical contexts, where kinematics is at present performed by means of marker-based systems. Specific drawbacks of these latter systems, such as the burden of time for marker placement and the intrinsic intrusive nature, would be removed by the proposed method. Experimental results in terms of tracking performance are obtained by analyzing video sequences capturing the execution of the sit-to-stand task in two groups of young and elderly volunteers. The results are compared with clinical studies that used marker-based systems, and are particularly encouraging for a future extension of the approach to other motor tasks and to predict scores obtained from the physical performance batteries that are widely and regularly used by clinicians and physical therapists.