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Traditional approaches to upper body pose estimation using monocular vision rely on complex body models and a large variety of geometric constraints. We argue that this is not ideal and instead attempt to incorporate these constraints through priors obtained directly from training data, by fitting a Gaussian mixture model to a large dataset of recorded human body poses, tracked using a Kinect sensor. We combine this information with a random walk transition model to obtain an upper body model that can be viewed as a mixture of discrete Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes, in that states behave as random walks, but drift towards a set of typically observed poses. The suggested model is designed with analytical tractability in mind and we show that the pose tracking can be Rao-Blackwellised using the mixture Kalman filter, allowing for computational efficiency while still incorporating bio-mechanical properties of the upper body.
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Burke, M., Lasenby, J. (2014). Fast Upper Body Joint Tracking Using Kinect Pose Priors. In: Perales, F.J., Santos-Victor, J. (eds) Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects. AMDO 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8563. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08849-5_10
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