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Tracking People with Twists and Exponential Maps (1998)
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@MISC{Bregler98trackingpeople,
author = {Christoph Bregler and Jitendra Malik},
title = {Tracking People with Twists and Exponential Maps},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
This paper demonstrates a new visual motion estimation technique that is able to recover high degree-of-freedom articulated human body configurations in complex video sequences. We introduce the use of a novel mathematical technique, the product of exponential maps and twist motions, and its integration into a differential motion estimation. This results in solving simple linear systems, and enables us to recover robustly the kinematic degrees-offreedom in noise and complex self occluded configurations. We demonstrate this on several image sequences of people doing articulated full body movements, and visualize the results in re-animating an artificial 3D human model. We are also able to recover and re-animate the famous movements of Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies from the last century. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first computer vision based system that is able to process such challenging footage and recover complex motions with such high accuracy.
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exponential map kinematic degrees-offreedom twist motion last century articulated full body movement human body configuration human model high accuracy complex motion motion study simple linear system challenging footage famous movement high degree-of-freedom complex video sequence novel mathematical technique new visual motion estimation technique several image sequence differential motion estimation complex self first computer vision eadweard muybridge
