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Human body orientation estimation in multiview scenarios

  • Technical University of Munich
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)

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Abstract

Estimation of human body orientation is an important cue to study and understand human behaviour, for different tasks such as video surveillance or human-robot interaction. In this paper, we propose an approach to simultaneously estimate the body orientation of multiple people in multi-view scenarios, which combines a 3D human body shape and appearance model with a 2D template matching approach. In particular, the 3D model is composed of a generic shape made up of elliptic cylinders, and a 3D colored point cloud (appearance model), obtained by back-projecting pixels from foreground images onto the geometric surfaces. In order to match the reconstructed appearance to target images in arbitrary poses, the appearance is re-projected onto each of the different views, by generating multiple templates that are pixel-wise, robustly matched to the respective foreground images. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated through experiments in indoor sequences with manually-labeled ground truth, using a calibrated multi-camera setup.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Visual Computing - 8th International Symposium, ISVC 2012, Revised Selected Papers
Pages499-508
Number of pages10
EditionPART 2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event8th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2012 - Rethymnon, Crete, Greece
Duration: 16 Jul 201218 Jul 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume7432 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2012
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityRethymnon, Crete
Period16/07/1218/07/12

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