Title
Real-time pose estimation of articulated objects using low-level motion
Abstract
We present a method that is capable of tracking and es- timating pose of articulated objects in real-time. This is achieved by using a bottom-up approach to detect instances of the object in each frame, these detections are then linked together using a high-level a priori motion model. Unlike other approaches that rely on appearance, our method is entirely dependent on motion; initial low-level part detec- tion is based on how a region moves as opposed to its ap- pearance. This work is best described as Pictorial Struc- tures using motion. A sparse cloud of points extracted us- ing a standard feature tracker are used as observational data, this data contains noise that is not Gaussian in nature but systematic due to tracking errors. Using a probabilistic framework we are able to overcome both corrupt and miss- ing data whilst still inferring new poses from a generative model. Our approach requires no manual initialisation and we show results for a number of complex scenes and differ- ent classes of articulated object, this demonstrates both the robustness and versatility of the presented technique.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/CVPR.2008.4587530
CVPR
Keywords
Field
DocType
image motion analysis,object detection,pose estimation,articulated objects,high-level a priori motion model,low-level motion,object detection,pictorial structures,real-time pose estimation
Object detection,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Feature extraction,Pose,Artificial intelligence,Missing data,Articulated body pose estimation,Hidden Markov model,Generative model
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2008
1
1063-6919
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.44
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ben Daubney1785.71
David Gibson2363.16
N.W. Campbell324732.14