A study on smoothing for particle-filtered 3D human body tracking

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 53-74

  Peursum, Patrick ^a   Venkatesh, Svetha ^a   West, Geoff ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Articulated human body tracking; Particle filtering; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

3D HUMAN BODY; APPROXIMATE INFERENCE; ARTICULATED HUMAN BODY TRACKING; BODY TRACKING; DATA SETS; GIBBS SAMPLING; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; HUMAN BODY TRACKING; INFERENCE TECHNIQUES; PARTICLE FILTERING; SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; VARIATIONAL APPROXIMATION;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; NONLINEAR FILTERING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 75149144543     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: 15731405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-009-0205-5     Document Type: Article

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