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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2020.21.7.285

Investigation of image preprocessing and face covering influences on motion recognition by a 2D human pose estimation algorithm  

Noh, Eunsol (Department of Mechanical Convergence Engineering, Kongju National University)
Yi, Sarang (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kongju National University)
Hong, Seokmoo (Department of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Kongju National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.21, no.7, 2020 , pp. 285-291 More about this Journal
Abstract
In manufacturing, humans are being replaced with robots, but expert skills remain difficult to convert to data, making them difficult to apply to industrial robots. One method is by visual motion recognition, but physical features may be judged differently depending on the image data. This study aimed to improve the accuracy of vision methods for estimating the posture of humans. Three OpenPose vision models were applied: MPII, COCO, and COCO+foot. To identify the effects of face-covering accessories and image preprocessing on the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) structure, the presence/non-presence of accessories, image size, and filtering were set as the parameters affecting the identification of a human's posture. For each parameter, image data were applied to the three models, and the errors between the actual and predicted values, as well as the percentage correct keypoints (PCK), were calculated. The COCO+foot model showed the lowest sensitivity to all three parameters. A <50% (from 3024×4032 to 1512×2016 pixels) reduction in image size was considered acceptable. Emboss filtering, in combination with MPII, provided the best results (reduced error of <60 pixels).
Keywords
Pose Estimation; OpenPose; Image Preprocessing; Image Filtering; Face Covering;
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