Homeomorphic alignment of weighted trees

  • Authors:
  • Benjamin Raynal;Michel Couprie;Venceslas Biri

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Paris-Est, Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard Monge, Equipe A3SI, UMR 8049 UPEMLV/ESIEE/CNRS, France;Université Paris-Est, Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard Monge, Equipe A3SI, UMR 8049 UPEMLV/ESIEE/CNRS, France;Université Paris-Est, Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard Monge, Equipe A3SI, UMR 8049 UPEMLV/ESIEE/CNRS, France

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Motion capture, a currently active research area, needs estimation of the pose of the subject. For this purpose, we match the tree representation of the skeleton of the 3D shape to a pre-specified tree model. Unfortunately, the tree representation can contain vertices that split limbs in multiple parts, which do not allow a good match by usual methods. To solve this problem, we propose a new alignment, taking into account the homeomorphism between trees, rather than the isomorphism, as in prior works. Then, we develop several computationally efficient algorithms for reaching real-time motion capture.