Tracking Human Position and Lower Body Parts Using Kalman and Particle Filters Constrained by Human Biomechanics

  • Authors:
  • J. M. del Rincón;D. Makris;C. O. Uruñuela;J. -C. Nebel

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Imaging Res. Centre, Kingston Univ., Kingston upon Thames, UK;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, a novel framework for visual tracking of human body parts is introduced. The approach presented demonstrates the feasibility of recovering human poses with data from a single uncalibrated camera by using a limb-tracking system based on a 2-D articulated model and a double-tracking strategy. Its key contribution is that the 2-D model is only constrained by biomechanical knowledge about human bipedal motion, instead of relying on constraints that are linked to a specific activity or camera view. These characteristics make our approach suitable for real visual surveillance applications. Experiments on a set of indoor and outdoor sequences demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on tracking human lower body parts. Moreover, a detail comparison with current tracking methods is presented.