ARTICULATED HUMAN MOTION TRACKING WITH HPSO

Vijay John, Spela Ivekovic, Emanuele Trucco

2009

Abstract

In this paper, we address full-body articulated human motion tracking from multi-view video sequences acquired in a studio environment. The tracking is formulated as a multi-dimensional nonlinear optimisation and solved using particle swarm optimisation (PSO), a swarm-intelligence algorithm which has gained popularity in recent years due to its ability to solve difficult nonlinear optimisation problems. Our tracking approach is designed to address the limits of particle filtering approaches: it initialises automatically, removes the need for a sequence-specific motion model and recovers from temporary tracking divergence through the use of a powerful hierarchical search algorithm (HPSO). We quantitatively compare the performance of HPSO with that of the particle filter (PF) and annealed particle filter (APF). Our test results, obtained using the framework proposed by (Balan et al., 2005) to compare articulated body tracking algorithms, show that HPSO’s pose estimation accuracy and consistency is better than PF and compares favourably with the APF, outperforming it in sequences with sudden and fast motion.

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in Harvard Style

John V., Ivekovic S. and Trucco E. (2009). ARTICULATED HUMAN MOTION TRACKING WITH HPSO . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 531-538. DOI: 10.5220/0001804505310538

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={Vijay John and Spela Ivekovic and Emanuele Trucco},
title={ARTICULATED HUMAN MOTION TRACKING WITH HPSO},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={531-538},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001804505310538},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - ARTICULATED HUMAN MOTION TRACKING WITH HPSO
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - John V.
AU - Ivekovic S.
AU - Trucco E.
PY - 2009
SP - 531
EP - 538
DO - 10.5220/0001804505310538