TY - GEN
T1 - On the improvement of anthropometry and pose estimation from a single uncalibrated image
AU - Barron, C.
AU - Kakadiaris, I. A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2000 IEEE.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - We developed a technique that allows semiautomatic estimation of anthropometry and pose from a single image. However, estimation was limited to a class of images for which an adequate number of human body segments were almost parallel to the image plane. We present a generalization of that estimation algorithm that exploits pairwise geometric relationships of body segments to allow estimation from a broader class of images. In addition, we refine our search space by constructing a fully populated discrete hyper-ellipsoid of stick human body models (SMs) in order to capture the variance of the statistical anthropometric information. As a result, a better initial estimate can be computed by our algorithm and thus the number of iterations needed during minimization are reduced by tenfold. We present our results over a variety of images to demonstrate the broad coverage of our algorithm.
AB - We developed a technique that allows semiautomatic estimation of anthropometry and pose from a single image. However, estimation was limited to a class of images for which an adequate number of human body segments were almost parallel to the image plane. We present a generalization of that estimation algorithm that exploits pairwise geometric relationships of body segments to allow estimation from a broader class of images. In addition, we refine our search space by constructing a fully populated discrete hyper-ellipsoid of stick human body models (SMs) in order to capture the variance of the statistical anthropometric information. As a result, a better initial estimate can be computed by our algorithm and thus the number of iterations needed during minimization are reduced by tenfold. We present our results over a variety of images to demonstrate the broad coverage of our algorithm.
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U2 - 10.1109/HUMO.2000.897371
DO - 10.1109/HUMO.2000.897371
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962171675
T3 - Proceedings - Workshop on Human Motion, HUMO 2000
SP - 53
EP - 60
BT - Proceedings - Workshop on Human Motion, HUMO 2000
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - Workshop on Human Motion, HUMO 2000
Y2 - 7 December 2000 through 8 December 2000
ER -