Singularity Analysis for Articulated Object Tracking

  • Authors:
  • D. D. Morris;J. M. Rehg

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CVPR '98 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We analyze the use of kinematic constraints for articulated object tracking. Conditions for the occurrence of singularities in 3-D models are presented and their effects on tracking are characterized. We describe a novel 2-D Scaled Prismatic Model (SPM) for figure registration. In contrast to 3-D kinematic models. the SPM has fewer singularity problems and does not require detailed knowledge of the 3-D kinematics. We fully characterize the singularities in the SPM and illustrate tracking through singularities using synthetic and real examples with 3-D and 2-D models. Our results demonstrate the significant benefits of the SPM in tracking with a single source of video.