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In this paper, we examine sensor specific distributions of local image operators (edge and line detectors), which describe the appearance of people in video sequences. The distributions are used to describe a probabilistic articulated motion model to track the gestures of a person in terms of arms and body movement, which is solved using a particle filter. We focus on modeling the statistics of one sensor and examine the influence of image noise and scale, and the spatial accuracy that is obtainable. Additionally spatial correlation between pixels is modeled in the appearance model. We show that by neglecting the correlation high detection probabilities are quickly overestimated, which can often lead to false positives. Using the weighted geometric mean of pixel information leads to much improved results.
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Bellens, R., Gautama, S., D’Haeyer, J. (2005). Modelling Spatial Correlation and Image Statistics for Improved Tracking of Human Gestures. In: Marques, J.S., Pérez de la Blanca, N., Pina, P. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3522. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11492429_66
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