Real-Time Hand and Head Tracking for Virtual Environments Using Infrared Beacons
CAPTECH '98 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modelling and Motion Capture Techniques for Virtual Environments
Visual affect recognition
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Computer sensing of hand and limb motion is an important problem for applications in human-computer interaction, virtual reality, and athletic performance measurement. We describe a framework for local tracking of self-occluding motion, in which parts of the mechanism obstruct each others visibility to the camera. Our approach uses a kinematic model to predict occlusion and windowed templates to track partially occluded objects. We analyze our model of self-occlusion, discuss the implementation of our algorithm, and give experimental results for 3D hand tracking under significant amounts of self-occlusion. These results extend the DigitEyes system for articulated tracking, which we have previously developed, to handle self-occluding motions.