Articulated-Body Tracking Through Anisotropic Edge Detection

This paper addresses the problem of articulated motion tracking from image sequences. We describe a method that relies on both an explicit parameterization of the extremal contours and on the prediction of the human boundary edges in the image. We combine extremal contour prediction and edge detection in a non linear minimization process. The error function that measures the discrepancy between observed image edges and predicted model contours is minimized using an analytical expression of the Jacobian that maps joint velocities onto extremal contour velocities. In practice, we model people both by their geometry (truncated elliptic cones) and their articulated structure

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ECCV
• Authors: David Knossow, Joost van de Weijer, Radu Horaud, Rémi Ronfard
• Keywords: Computer Vision, ECCV 2006, Extremal Contour Prediction, Extremal Contour Velocities, Extremal Contours