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Tracking a Walking Motion Based on Dynamics Using a Monocular Camera  

Yoo, Tae-Keun (College of Medicine, Yonsei Uinversity)
Choi, Jae-Lim (Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, Yonsei University)
Kim, Deok-Won (Dept. of Medical Engineering, Yonsei Uinversity College of Medicine)
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Abstract
Gait analysis is an examination which extracts objective information from observing human gait and assesses the function. The equipments used recently for gait analysis are expensive due to multiple cameras and force plates, and require the large space to set up the system. In this paper, we proposed a method to measure human gait motions in 3D from a monocular video. Our approach was based on particle filtering to track human motion without training data and previous information about a gait. We used dynamics to make physics-based motions with the consideration of contacts between feet and base. In a walking sequence, our approach showed the mean angular error of $12.4^{\circ}$ over all joints, which was much smaller than the error of $34.6^{\circ}$ with the conventional particle filter. These results showed that a monocular camera is able to replace the existing complicated system for measuring human gait quantitatively.
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motion tracking; monocular camera; walking motion; particle filter; dynamics;
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