Efficient marker matching using pair-wise constraints in physical therapy

  • Authors:
  • Gregory Johnson;Nianhua Xie;Jill Slaboda;Y. Justin Shi;Emily Keshner;Haibin Ling

  • Affiliations:
  • Temple University, Philadelphia;Temple University, Philadelphia;Temple University, Philadelphia;Temple University, Philadelphia;Temple University, Philadelphia;Temple University, Philadelphia

  • Venue:
  • ISVC'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in visual computing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we report a robust, efficient, and automatic method for matching infrared tracked markers for human motion analysis in computer-aided physical therapy applications. The challenges of this task stem from non-rigid marker motion, occlusion, and timing requirements. To overcome these difficulties, we use pair-wise distance constraints for marker identification. To meet the timing requirements, we first reduce the candidate marker labels by proximity constraints before enforcing the pair-wise constraints. Experiments with 38 real motion sequences, our method has shown superior accuracy and significant speedup over a semi-automatic proprietary method and the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) approach.