Evaluating human motion complexity based on un-correlation and non-smoothness

  • Authors:
  • Yang Yang;Howard Leung;Lihua Yue;Liqun Deng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China and Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R.;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R.;Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China;Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China and Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R.

  • Venue:
  • PCM'10 Proceedings of the Advances in multimedia information processing, and 11th Pacific Rim conference on Multimedia: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Determining the complexity of a human motion is useful for human motion analysis with potential applications such as biomechanics, sport training, entertainment. There has not been much research effort in finding a complexity measure to evaluate the whole human body motion automatically. In this paper, we present a novel approach to evaluate the complexity of human motion based on motion captured data. Our proposed complexity measure considers the un-correlation among active joint dimensions and the nonsmoothness of each joint dimension in the temporal direction. It is logical to expect that a motion is more complex if the joint dimensions are less correlated and the temporal movement is less smooth. The experimental results show that our proposed complexity measure is able to cluster the same type of motions and differentiate motions with different observed complexities.