Human Motion

by Rosenhahn, Bodo; Klette, Reinhard; Metaxas, Dimitris N.

• ISBN13: 9781402066924
• ISBN10: 1402066929
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This is the first book which informs about recent progress in biomechanics, computer vision and computer graphics all in one volume. Researchers from these areas have contributed to this book to promote the establishment of human motion research as a multi-facetted discipline and to improve the exchange of ideas and concepts between these three areas. The book combines carefully written reviews with detailed reports on recent progress in research.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Understanding Human Motion: A Historic Review	p. 1
2D Tracking
The Role of Manifold Learning in Human Motion Analysis	p. 25
Recognition of Action as a Bayesian Parameter Estimation Problem over Time	p. 57
The William Harvey Code: Mathematical Analysis of Optical Flow Computation for Cardiac Motion	p. 81
Detection and Tracking of Humans in Single View Sequences Using 2D Articulated Model	p. 105
Learning
Combining Discrete and Continuous 3D Trackers	p. 133
Graphical Models for Human Motion Modelling	p. 159
3D Human Motion Analysis in Monocular Video: Techniques and Challenges	p. 185
Spatially and Temporally Segmenting Movement to Recognize Actions	p. 213
Topologically Constrained Isometric Embedding	p. 243
2D-3D Tracking
Contours, Optic Flow, and Prior Knowledge: Cues for Capturing 3D Human Motion in Videos	p. 265
Tracking Clothed People	p. 295
An Introduction to Interacting Simulated Annealing	p. 319
Motion Capture for Interaction Environments	p. 347
Markerless Motion Capture for Biomechanical Applications	p. 377
Biomechanics and Applications
Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects of Movement: The Discrepancy Between Clinical Gait Analysis and Activities of Daily Life	p. 401
Optimization of Human Motion Exemplified with Handbiking by Means of Motion Analysis and Musculoskeletal Models	p. 417
Imitation Learning and Transferring of Human Movement and Hand Grasping to Adapt to Environment Changes	p. 435
Accurate and Model-free Pose Estimation of Crash Test Dummies	p. 453
Modelling and Animation
A Relational Approach to Content-based Analysis of Motion Capture Data	p. 477
The Representation of Rigid Body Motions in the Conformal Model of Geometric Algebra	p. 507
Video-based Capturing and Rendering of People	p. 531
Interacting Deformable Objects	p. 561
From Performance Theory to Character Animation Tools	p. 597
Index	p. 631
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