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Constraint-Based Optimized Human Skeleton Extraction from Single-Depth Camera

delete2019-06-07
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Ruotong Li
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Weixin Si *
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Michael Weinmann
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Reinhard Klein
DOI:10.3390/s19112604delete
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As a cutting-edge research topic in computer vision and graphics for decades, human skeleton extraction from single-depth camera remains challenging due to possibly occurring occlusions of different body parts, huge appearance variations, and sensor noise. In this paper, we propose to incorporate human skeleton length conservation and symmetry priors as well as temporal constraints to enhance the consistency and continuity for the estimated skeleton of a moving human body. Given an initial estimation of the skeleton joint positions provided per frame by the Kinect SDK or Nuitrack SDK, which do not follow the aforementioned priors and can prone to errors, our framework improves the accuracy of these pose estimates based on the length and symmetry constraints. In addition, our method is device-independent and can be integrated into skeleton extraction SDKs for refinement, allowing the detection of outliers within the initial joint location estimates and predicting new joint location estimates following the temporal observations. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our approach in several cases.
Keywords:
human skeleton extraction
skeleton constraints
consistency
continuity
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university of bonn
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chinese academy of sciences
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