Title
Improved Skeleton Estimation by Means of Depth Data Fusion from Multiple Depth Cameras.
Abstract
In this work, we address the problem of human skeleton estimation when multiple depth cameras are available. We propose a system that takes advantage of the knowledge of the camera poses to create a collaborative virtual depth image of the person in the scene which consists of points from all the cameras and that represents the person in a frontal pose. This depth image is fed as input to the open-source body part detector in the Point Cloud Library. A further contribution of this work is the improvement of this detector obtained by introducing two new components: as a pre-processing, a people detector is applied to remove the background from the depth map before estimating the skeleton, while an alpha-beta tracking is added as a post-processing step for filtering the obtained joint positions over time. The overall system has been proven to effectively improve the skeleton estimation on two sequences of people in different poses acquired from two first-generation Microsoft Kinect.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-48036-7_85
INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS 14
Keywords
Field
DocType
Skeleton estimation,Body parts estimation,Multiple depth cameras,PCL,OpenPTrack
Computer vision,Computer science,Filter (signal processing),Sensor fusion,Human skeleton,Artificial intelligence,Depth map,Skeleton (computer programming),Point cloud,Detector
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
531
2194-5357
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Carraro192.59
Matteo Munaro216915.02
Alina Roitberg3241.80
Emanuele Menegatti465171.16