3D Tracking of Human Locomotion: A Tracking as Recognition Approach

  • Authors:
  • Tao Zhao;Ram Nevatia

  • 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

Estimating mode (walking/running/standing) and phases of human locomotion is important for video understanding. We present a new "tracking as recognition" approach. A hierarchical finite state machine constructed from 3D motion capture data serves as a prior motion model. Motion templates are used as the observation model. Robustness is achieved by making inferences in the prior motion model which resolves the short-term ambiguity of the observations that may cause a regular tracking formulation to fail. Experiments show very promising results on some difficult sequences.