The long term vision of smart service systems in which electronic environments are made sensitive and responsive to the presence of, possibly many, people is gradually taking shap...
We present a novel motion-based approach for the part determination and shape estimation of a human’s body parts. The novelty of the technique is that neither a prior model of t...
Detection, tracking, segmentation and pose estimation of people in monocular images are widely studied. Two-dimensional models of the human body are extensively used, however, they...
The detection and modeling of the human spine from scanned 3D data is an important issue in biomedical shape analysis. It can be useful for avoiding invasive treatments like radiog...
Among the visual features of multimedia content, shape is of particular interest because humans can often recognize objects solely on the basis of shape. Over the past three decad...