3D measurement of human upper body for gesture recognition

Khairunizam Wan; Hideyuki Sawada

doi:10.1117/12.754566

8 October 2007 3D measurement of human upper body for gesture recognition

Khairunizam Wan, Hideyuki Sawada

Proceedings Volume 6718, Optomechatronic Computer-Vision Systems II; 67180I (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.754566
Event: International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies, 2007, Lausanne, Switzerland

Abstract

Measurement of human motion is widely required for various applications, and a significant part of this task is to identify motion in the process of human motion recognition. There are several application purposes of doing this research such as in surveillance, entertainment, medical treatment and traffic applications as user interfaces that require the recognition of different parts of human body to identify an action or a motion. The most challenging task in human motion recognition is to achieve the ability and reliability of a motion capture system for tracking and recognizing dynamic movements, because human body structure has many degrees of freedom. Many attempts for recognizing body actions have been reported so far, in which gestural motions have to be measured by some sensors first, and the obtained data are processed in a computer. This paper introduces the 3D motion analysis of human upper body using an optical motion capture system for the purpose of gesture recognition. In this study, the image processing technique to track optical markers attached at feature points of human body is introduced for constructing a human upper body model and estimating its three dimensional motion.

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Khairunizam Wan and Hideyuki Sawada "3D measurement of human upper body for gesture recognition", Proc. SPIE 6718, Optomechatronic Computer-Vision Systems II, 67180I (8 October 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.754566

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