Extraction of human body skeleton based on silhouette images

2nd International Workshop on Education Technology and Computer Science, ETCS 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 71-74

  Ding, Jianhao ^a,b   Wang, Yigang ^b   Yu, Lingyun ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Feature detection; Joints estimation; Skeletonization

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX DATA STRUCTURES; CRITICAL POINTS; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; FEATURE DETECTION; FEATURE POINT; HUMAN BODIES; MEMORY COST; SHAPE REPRESENTATION; SILHOUETTE IMAGES; SKELETON EXTRACTION; SKELETON JOINTS; SKELETONIZATION; SKELETONIZATION ALGORITHM;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA STRUCTURES; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; IMAGE PROCESSING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77953198990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ETCS.2010.241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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