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The present paper considers the supplement of prior knowledge about joint angle configurations in the scope of 3-D human pose tracking. Training samples obtained from an industrial marker based tracking system are used for a nonparametric Parzen density estimation in the 12-dimensional joint configuration space. These learned probability densities constrain the image-driven joint angle estimates by drawing solutions towards familiar configurations. This prevents the method from producing unrealistic pose estimates due to unreliable image cues. Experiments on sequences with a human leg model reveal a considerably increased robustness, particularly in the presence of disturbed images and occlusions.
We gratefully acknowledge funding by the DFG project CR250/1 and the Max-Planck Center for visual computing and communication.
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Brox, T., Rosenhahn, B., Kersting, U.G., Cremers, D. (2006). Nonparametric Density Estimation for Human Pose Tracking. In: Franke, K., Müller, KR., Nickolay, B., Schäfer, R. (eds) Pattern Recognition. DAGM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11861898_55
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