3-D model-based tracking of humans in action: a multi-view approach

We present a vision system for the 3-D modelbased tracking of unconstrained human movement. Using image sequences acquired simultaneously from multiple views, we recover the 3-D body pose at each time instant without the use of markers. The poserecovery problem is formulated as a search problem and entails nding the pose parameters of a graphical human model whose synthesized appearance is most similar to the actual appearance of the real human in the multi-view images. The models used for this purpose are acquired from the images. We use a decomposition approach and a best- rst technique to search through the high dimensional pose parameter space. A robust variant of chamfer matching is used as a fast similarity measure between synthesized and real edge images. We present initial tracking results from a large new Humans-In-Action (HIA) database containing more than 2500 frames in each of four orthogonal views. They contain subjects involved in a variety of activities, of various degr...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: CVPR
• Authors: Dariu Gavrila, Larry S. Davis
• Keywords: 3-D Body Pose, 3-D Modelbased Tracking, Computer Vision, CVPR 1996, Pose Parameter