Automatic Recognition of Human Walking in Monocular Image Sequences

  • Authors:
  • Jia-Ching Cheng;José M. F. Moura

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213

  • Venue:
  • Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems - special issue on multimedia signal processing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In numerous content-based video applications, it isimportant to extract from a video sequence a representation forhumans in motion. This task is difficult, because humans are notrigid objects and they are capable of performing a wide variety ofactions. However, often, human movements can be categorized intorepetitive and rhythmic patterns of motion. Identifying the motionpattern of a human significantly alleviates the task of constructionof its representation. We propose here a model-based recognition ofthe generic posture of human walking in dynamic scenes. We model thehuman body as an articulated object connected by joints and rigidparts, and model the human walking as a periodic motion. Therecognition task is to fit the model walker sequence to the walker inthe live video (data walker sequence). We achieve this by determiningthe period of the data walker sequence and finding its phase withrespect to the model walker sequence. We present promising results ofhow our system performs with a live video sequence.