Towards real-time body pose estimation for presenters in meeting environments

Poppe, Ronald and Heylen, Dirk and Nijholt, Anton and Poel, Mannes (2005) Towards real-time body pose estimation for presenters in meeting environments. In: 13th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, WSCG 2005, January 31 - February 4, 2005, Bory, Czech Republic.

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Abstract:	This paper describes a computer vision-based approach to body pose estimation. The algorithm can be executed in real-time and processes low resolution, monocular image sequences. A silhouette is extracted and matched against a projection of a 16 DOF human body model. In addition, skin color is used to locate hands and head. No detailed human body model is needed. We evaluate the approach both quantitatively using synthetic image sequences and qualitatively on video test data of short presentations. The algorithm is developed with the aim of using it in the context of a meeting room where the poses of a presenter have to be estimated. The results can be applied in the domain of virtual environments.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Human Media Interaction (HMI)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/65554
Organisation URL:	http://wscg.zcu.cz/wscg2005/
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