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In human motion analysis, the joint estimation of appearance, body pose and location parameters is not always tractable due to its huge computational cost. In this paper, we propose a Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for addressing the problem of human pose estimation and tracking. The advantage of the proposed approach is that Rao-Blackwellization allows the state variables to be splitted into two sets, being one of them analytically calculated from the posterior probability of the remaining ones. This procedure reduces the dimensionality of the Particle Filter, thus requiring fewer particles to achieve a similar tracking performance. In this manner, location and size over the image are obtained stochastically using colour and motion clues, whereas body pose is solved analytically applying learned human Point Distribution Models.
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Martínez-del-Rincón, J., Orrite-Uruñuela, C., Rogez, G. (2007). Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for Human Appearance and Position Tracking. In: Martí, J., Benedí, J.M., Mendonça, A.M., Serrat, J. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72847-4_27
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