A novel hierarchical information fusion method for three-dimensional upper limb motion estimation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3709-3719

  Zhang, Zhi Qiang ^a   Wu, Jian Kang ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Hierarchical information fusion; motion capture; particle filter

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; ELBOW JOINTS; GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINTS; GROUND TRUTH; HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION; HIGH RESOLUTION CAMERA; HUMAN BODY SEGMENTS; HUMAN MOTION CAPTURE; HUMAN SKELETON; INERTIAL SENSOR; INTERACTIVE GAMES; MOTION CAPTURE; NOVEL SOLUTIONS; ON CHIPS; PARTICLE FILTER; RAPID DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SENSOR DATA; SENSOR FUSION; SINGULARITY PROBLEMS; TRAJECTORY PLANNING; UPPER LIMB MOTION; UPPER LIMBS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; ESTIMATION; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION FUSION; MICROSENSORS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; USER INTERFACES;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 80054069734     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2135070     Document Type: Article

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