Estimating articulated human motion with covariance scaled sampling

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 371-391

  Sminchisescu, Cristian ^a,b   Triggs, Bill ^a  

^a INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D human body tracking; Constrained optimization; High dimensional search; Particle filtering; Robust matching

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MOTION PLANNING; OPTICAL FLOWS; OPTIMIZATION;

HUMAN MOTION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0038380194     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364903022006003     Document Type: Article

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