3D Tracking of Human Locomotion: A Tracking as Recognition Approach

Estimating mode (walking/running/standing) and phases of human locomotion is important for video understanding. We present a new ”tracking as recognition” approach. A hierarchical finite state machine constructed from 3D motion capture data serves as a prior motion model. Motion templates are used as the observation model. Robustness is achieved by making inferences in the prior motion model which resolves the short-term ambiguity of the observations that may cause a regular tracking formulation to fail. Experiments show very promising results on some difficult sequences.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: ICPR
• Authors: Tao Zhao, Ramakant Nevatia
• Keywords: ICPR 2002, Motion Capture Data, Motion Templates, Prior Motion Model