Human Motion Tracking by Registering an Articulated Surface to 3-D Points and Normals
This work provides an incremental method for human motion tracking, which is relevant for researchers working with 3-D visual data.
This paper addresses human motion tracking by registering a surface to 3-D data. It proposes an iterative method that simultaneously estimates kinematic and free-motion parameters of a human body representation and assigns probabilities to data points being either part of the body or outliers.
We address the problem of human motion tracking by registering a surface to 3-D data. We propose a method that iteratively computes two things: Maximum likelihood estimates for both the kinematic and free-motion parameters of a kinematic human-body representation, as well as probabilities that the data are assigned either to a body part, or to an outlier cluster. We introduce a new metric between observed points and normals on one side, and a parameterized surface on the other side, the latter being defined as a blending over a set of ellipsoids. We claim that this metric is well suited when one deals with either visual-hull or visual-shape observations. We illustrate the method by tracking human motions using sparse visual-shape data (3-D surface points and normals) gathered from imperfect silhouettes.