Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects

1. Front Matter

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2. Inverse Kinematics Using Sequential Monte Carlo Methods

   • Nicolas Courty, Elise Arnaud

   Pages 1-10

3. Estimation of Dense, Non-rigid Motion Fields from a Multi-camera Array Using a Hierarchical Mixture Model

   • Adam Bowen, Andrew Mullins, Roland Wilson, Nasir Rajpoot

   Pages 11-21

4. Learning to Look at Humans — What Are the Parts of a Moving Body?

   • Thomas Walther, Rolf P. Würtz

   Pages 22-31

5. Continuous Hand Gesture Recognition in the Learned Hierarchical Latent Variable Space

   • Lei Han, Wei Liang

   Pages 32-41

6. Real-Time 3D Body Pose Tracking from Multiple 2D Images

   • Chi-Wei Chu, Ramakant Nevatia

   Pages 42-52

7. Applying Space State Models in Human Action Recognition: A Comparative Study

   • M. Ángeles Mendoza, Nicolás Pérez de la Blanca

   Pages 53-62

8. Bone Glow: An Improved Method for the Assignment of Weights for Mesh Deformation

   • Rich Wareham, Joan Lasenby

   Pages 63-71

9. Analysis of Human Motion, Based on the Reduction of Multidimensional Captured Data – Application to Hand Gesture Compression, Segmentation and Synthesis

   • Sylvie Gibet, Pierre-François Marteau

   Pages 72-81

10. Exploiting Structural Hierarchy in Articulated Objects Towards Robust Motion Capture

    • C. Canton-Ferrer, J. R. Casas, M. Pardàs

    Pages 82-91

11. Estimating Human Skeleton Parameters and Configuration in Real-Time from Markered Optical Motion Capture

    • Jonathan Cameron, Joan Lasenby

    Pages 92-101

12. Dealing with Self-occlusion in Region Based Motion Capture by Means of Internal Regions

    • Christian Schmaltz, Bodo Rosenhahn, Thomas Brox, Joachim Weickert, Lennart Wietzke, Gerald Sommer

    Pages 102-111

13. Model-Based Analysis and Synthesis of Time-Varying Mesh

    • Takashi Maeda, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Kiyoharu Aizawa

    Pages 112-121

14. Mesh Vertex Pose and Position Interpolation Using Geometric Algebra

    • Rich Wareham, Joan Lasenby

    Pages 122-131

15. An Audiovisual Talking Head for Augmented Speech Generation: Models and Animations Based on a Real Speaker’s Articulatory Data

    • Pierre Badin, Frédéric Elisei, Gérard Bailly, Yuliya Tarabalka

    Pages 132-143

16. Towards Efficiency in Cloth Simulation

    • Fernando Birra, Manuel Santos

    Pages 144-155

17. 2D Articulated Body Tracking with Self-occultations Handling

    • Eric Para, Olivier Bernier, Catherine Achard

    Pages 156-165

18. A Two-Step Approach for Detecting Individuals within Dense Crowds

    • Chern-Horng Sim, Ekambaram Rajmadhan, Surendra Ranganath

    Pages 166-174

19. 3D Modeling for Deformable Objects

    • Yi Song, Li Bai

    Pages 175-187

20. Active-Vision System Reconfiguration for Form Recognition in the Presence of Dynamic Obstacles

    • Matthew Mackay, Beno Benhabib

    Pages 188-207

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, AMDO 2008, held in Port d'Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, in July 2008. The 36 revised full papers and 7 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers are organized in topical section on computer graphics: human modelling and animation, human motion: analysis, tracking, 3D reconstruction and recognition, multimodal user interaction: VR and ar, speech, biometrics, and advanced multimedia systems: standards, indexed video contents.

• 3D graphics
• 3D recovery
• affective computing
• animation
• articulated models
• articulated motion
• augmented reality
• biometrics
• body modeling
• computer graphics
• computer vision
• deformable objects
• deformation
• dimensionality reduction
• dynamic programm

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