Method and apparatus for estimating body shape

MJ Black, AO Balan, AW Weiss, MM Loper… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
(54) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR(58) Field of Classification Search ESTMLATING
BODY SHAPE CPC combination set (s) only. See application file for complete search …

Combined discriminative and generative articulated pose and non-rigid shape estimation

L Sigal, A Balan, M Black - Advances in neural information …, 2007 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Estimation of three-dimensional articulated human pose and motion from images is a central
problem in computer vision. Much of the previous work has been limited by the use of crude …

Discriminative human action recognition in the learned hierarchical manifold space

L Han, X Wu, W Liang, G Hou, Y Jia - Image and Vision Computing, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a hierarchical discriminative approach for human action
recognition. It consists of feature extraction with mutual motion pattern analysis and …

Fast crowd segmentation using shape indexing

L Dong, V Parameswaran, V Ramesh… - 2007 IEEE 11th …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a fast, accurate, and novel method for the problem of estimating the
number of humans and their positions from background differenced images obtained from a …

Comparison of Fourier descriptors and Hu moments for hand posture recognition

S Conseil, S Bourennane… - 2007 15th European Signal …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose to use Fourier descriptors (FD) for hand posture recognition in a
vision-based approach. FD are widely used for shape representation and pattern …

Evaluating example-based pose estimation: Experiments on the humaneva sets

RW Poppe - 2007 - research.utwente.nl
We present an example-based approach to pose recovery, using histograms of oriented
gradients as image descriptors. Tests on the HumanEva-I and HumanEva-II data sets …

Combined intention, activity, and motion recognition for a humanoid household robot

D Gehrig, P Krauthausen, L Rybok… - 2011 IEEE/RSJ …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a multi-level approach to intention, activity, and motion recognition for a
humanoid robot is proposed. Our system processes images from a monocular camera and …

Tracking of humans and estimation of body/head orientation from top-view single camera for visual focus of attention analysis

O Ozturk, T Yamasaki, K Aizawa - 2009 IEEE 12th international …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of determining a person's body and head orientations
while tracking the person in an indoor environment monitored by a single top-view camera …

Comparison of shape descriptors for hand posture recognition in video

S Bourennane, C Fossati - Signal, Image and Video Processing, 2012 - Springer
Hand posture recognition remains a challenging task for in-line systems working directly in
the video stream. In this work, we compare several shape descriptors, with the objective of …

3D human pose recovery from image by efficient visual feature selection

C Chen, Y Yang, F Nie, JM Odobez - Computer Vision and Image …, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper we propose a new examplar-based approach to recover 3D human poses from
monocular images. Given the visual feature of each frame, pose retrieval is first conducted in …