FEATURE-BASED ANNEALING PARTICLE FILTER FOR ROBUST BODY POSE ESTIMATION

Adolfo López, Josep R. Casas

2009

Abstract

This paper presents a new annealing method for particle filtering in the context of body pose estimation. The feature-based annealing is inferred from the weighting functions obtained with common image features used for the likelihood approximation. We introduce a complementary weighting function based on the foreground extraction and we balance the different measures through the annealing layers in order to improve the posterior estimate. This technique is applied to estimate the upper body pose of a subject in a realistic multi-view environment. Comparative results between the proposed method and the common annealing strategy are presented to assess the robustness of the algorithm.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

López A. and R. Casas J. (2009). FEATURE-BASED ANNEALING PARTICLE FILTER FOR ROBUST BODY POSE ESTIMATION . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 438-443. DOI: 10.5220/0001783404380443

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={Adolfo López and Josep R. Casas},
title={FEATURE-BASED ANNEALING PARTICLE FILTER FOR ROBUST BODY POSE ESTIMATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={438-443},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001783404380443},
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 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - FEATURE-BASED ANNEALING PARTICLE FILTER FOR ROBUST BODY POSE ESTIMATION
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - López A.
AU - R. Casas J.
PY - 2009
SP - 438
EP - 443
DO - 10.5220/0001783404380443