Fast 3D reconstruction of human shape and motion tracking by parallel fast level set method

— This paper presents a parallel algorithm of the Level Set Method named the Parallel Fast Level Set Method, and its application for real-time 3D reconstruction of human shape and motion. The Fast Level Set Method is an efficient implementation algorithm of the Level Set Method and has been applied to several applications such as object tracking in video images and 3D shape reconstruction using multiple stereo cameras. In this paper, we implement the Fast Level Set Method on a PC cluster and develop a real-time motion capture system for arbitrary viewpoint image synthesis. To obtain high performance on a PC cluster, efficient load-balancing and resource allocation algorithms are crucial problems. We develop a novel optimization technique of load distribution based on the estimation of moving direction of object boundaries. In this technique, the boundary motion is estimated in the framework of the Fast Level Set Method, and the optimum load distribution is predicted and performed a...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICRA
• Authors: Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume, Kenji Hara, Seiichi Uchida, Ken'ichi Morooka, Tsutomu Hasegawa
• Keywords: Arbitrary Viewpoint Image, Fast Level, ICRA 2008, Level Set Method, Robotics