Human Motion

1. Front Matter

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2. 2D Tracking

   1. Understanding Human Motion: A Historic Review

      • Reinhard Klette, Garry Tee

      Pages 1-22

   2. The Role of Manifold Learning in Human Motion Analysis

      • Ahmed Elgammal, Chan-Su Lee

      Pages 25-56

   3. Recognition of Action as a Bayesian Parameter Estimation Problem over Time

      • Volker Krüger

      Pages 57-79

   4. The William Harvey Code: Mathematical Analysis of Optical Flow Computation for Cardiac Motion

      • Yusuke Kameda, Atsushi Imiya

      Pages 81-104

   5. Detection and Tracking of Humans in Single View Sequences Using 2D Articulated Model

      • Filip Korč, Václav Hlaváč

      Pages 105-130

3. Learning

   1. Combining Discrete and Continuous 3D Trackers

      • Gabriel Tsechpenakis, Dimitris Metaxas, Carol Neidle

      Pages 133-158

   2. Graphical Models for Human Motion Modelling

      • Kooksang Moon, Vladimir Pavlović

      Pages 159-183

   3. 3D Human Motion Analysis in Monocular Video: Techniques and Challenges

      • Cristian Sminchisescu

      Pages 185-211

   4. Spatially and Temporally Segmenting Movement to Recognize Actions

      • Richard Green

      Pages 213-241

   5. Topologically Constrained Isometric Embedding

      • Guy Rosman, Alexander M. Bronstein, Michael M. Bronstein, Ron Kimmel

      Pages 243-262

4. 2D–3D Tracking

   1. Contours, Optic Flow, and Prior Knowledge: Cues for Capturing 3D Human Motion in Videos

      • Thomas Brox, Bodo Rosenhahn, Daniel Cremers

      Pages 265-293

   2. Tracking Clothed People

      • Bodo Rosenhahn, Uwe G. Kersting, Katie Powell, Thomas Brox, Hans-Peter Seidel

      Pages 295-317

   3. An Introduction to Interacting Simulated Annealing

      • Juergen Gall, Bodo Rosenhahn, Hans-Peter Seidel

      Pages 319-345

   4. Motion Capture for Interaction Environments

      • Daniel Grest, Reinhard Koch

      Pages 347-376

   5. Markerless Motion Capture for Biomechanical Applications

      • Lars Mündermann, Stefano Corazza, Thomas P. Andriacchi

      Pages 377-398

5. Biomechanics and Applications

   1. Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects of Movement: The Discrepancy Between Clinical Gait Analysis and Activities of Daily Life

      • Dieter Rosenbaum, Mirko Brandes

      Pages 401-415

   2. Optimization of Human Motion Exemplified with Handbiking by Means of Motion Analysis and Musculoskeletal Models

      • Harald Böhm, Christian Krämer

      Pages 417-434

   3. Imitation Learning and Transferring of Human Movement and Hand Grasping to Adapt to Environment Changes

      • Stephan Al-Zubi, Gerald Sommer

      Pages 435-452

   4. Accurate and Model-free Pose Estimation of Crash Test Dummies

      • Stefan K. Gehrig, Hernán Badino, Jüergen Gall

      Pages 453-473

Edward Muybridge (1830–1904) is known as the pioneer in motion capt- ing with his famous experiments in 1887 called “Animal Locomotion”. Since then, the ?eld of animal or human motion analysis has grown in many dir- tions. However, research and results that involve human-like animation and the recovery of motion is still far from being satisfactory. The modelling, tracking, and understanding of human motion based on video sequences as a research ?eld has increased in importance particularly in thelastdecadewiththeemergenceofapplicationsinsportssciences,medicine, biomechanics, animation (online games), surveillance, and security. Progress in human motion analysis depends on empirically anchored and grounded research in computer vision, computer graphics, and biomechanics. Though these ?elds of research are often treated separately, human motion analysis requires the integration of methodologies from computer vision and computer graphics.Furthermore,theunderstandinganduseofbiomechanicsconstraints improves the robustness of such an approach. This book is based on a June 2006 workshop held in Dagstuhl, Germany. This workshop brought together for the ?rst time researchers from the afo- mentioned disciplines. Based on their diverse perspectives, these researchers havebeendevelopingnewmethodologiesandcontributing,throughtheir?- ings, to the domain of human motion analysis. The interdisciplinary character of the workshop allowed people to present a wide range of approaches that helped stimulate intellectual discussions and the exchange of new ideas.

• 3D
• Performance
• animation
• biomechanics
• computer graphics
• modeling
• rendering
• robotics

• Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany

  Bodo Rosenhahn

• The University of Auckland, New Zealand

  Reinhard Klette

• Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA

  Dimitris Metaxas

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