Title
Time Coherent Full-Body Poses Estimated Using Only Five Inertial Sensors: Deep versus Shallow Learning.
Abstract
Full-body motion capture typically requires sensors/markers to be placed on each rigid body segment, which results in long setup times and is obtrusive. The number of sensors/markers can be reduced using deep learning or offline methods. However, this requires large training datasets and/or sufficient computational resources. Therefore, we investigate the following research question: What is the performance of a shallow approach, compared to a deep learning one, for estimating time coherent full-body poses using only five inertial sensors?. We propose to incorporate past/future inertial sensor information into a stacked input vector, which is fed to a shallow neural network for estimating full-body poses. Shallow and deep learning approaches are compared using the same input vector configurations. Additionally, the inclusion of acceleration input is evaluated. The results show that a shallow learning approach can estimate full-body poses with a similar accuracy (similar to 6 cm) to that of a deep learning approach (similar to 7 cm). However, the jerk errors are smaller using the deep learning approach, which can be the effect of explicit recurrent modelling. Furthermore, it is shown that the delay using a shallow learning approach (72 ms) is smaller than that of a deep learning approach (117 ms).
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19173716
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
inertial motion capture,machine learning,neural networks,deep learning,LSTM,time coherence,human movement,reduced sensor set,pose estimation
Motion capture,Jerk,Algorithm,Electronic engineering,Pose,Rigid body,Acceleration,Artificial intelligence,Inertial measurement unit,Engineering,Deep learning,Artificial neural network
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
17.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank J. Wouda101.35
Matteo Giuberti2386.35
Nina Rudigkeit300.34
Bert-Jan F van Beijnum4453.37
Mannes Poel540.78
Peter H. Veltink629142.38