Three-dimensional human shape inference from silhouettes: Reconstruction and validation

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 145-157

  Boisvert, Jonathan ^a   Shu, Chang ^a   Wuhrer, Stefanie ^a   Xi, Pengcheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human models; Shape from silhouettes; Statistical prior; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

BODY MODELS; BODY SHAPES; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN MODEL; IMAGE FEATURES; MEAN ERRORS; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; ON-BODY; PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SHAPE INFERENCE; SHAPE-FROM-SILHOUETTES; STATISTICAL PRIOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) SHAPES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; TWO-POINT;

FUNCTIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84872293531     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-011-0353-9     Document Type: Article

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