Estimating 2D Upper Body Poses from Monocular Images

Jeroen Broekhuijsen, Ronald Walter Poppe, Mannes Poel

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    Abstract

    Automatic estimation and recognition of poses from video allows for a whole range of applications. The research described here is an important step towards automatic extraction of 3D poses. We describe our research to extract the 2D joint locations of the people in meeting videos. The key point of the research described here is that we generalize over variations in appearance of both people and scene. This results in a robust detection of 2D joint locations. For the detection of different limbs, we employ a number of limb locators. Each of these uses a different set of image features. We evaluate our work on two videos that have been recorded in the meeting context. Our results are promising, yielding an average error of approximately 3-5 cm per joint.
    Original languageUndefined
    Place of PublicationEnschede
    PublisherCentre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT)
    Number of pages12
    Publication statusPublished - 6 Sept 2006

    Publication series

    NameCTIT Technical Report Series
    PublisherUniversity of Twente, Centre for Telematics and Information Technology
    No.06-55
    ISSN (Print)1381-3625

    Keywords

    • EWI-6903
    • EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP6/506811
    • IR-66349
    • METIS-238676

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