Model-Based Human Body Tracking

  • Authors:
  • Yu Huang;Thomas S. Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '02 Proceedings of the 16 th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02) Volume 1 - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Visual tracking of human body movement is a key technology in a number of areas. In this paper we present a 2-D model-based method ofhuman body trackingfrom a monocular video sequence. Morris & Rehg put forward a 2-D Scaled Prismatic Model (SPM) for figure registration which has far fewer singularity problems than 3-D models. Here we extend it in a 2-D cardboard human body model with additional one DOF ofwidth change. We set up a mixture motion model for body movements and then solve body motion parameters using EM in a statistical framework, where the model-based kinematic constraints are incorporated in a linear form. Tracking results from real video sequences are encouraging.