Automatic techniques for 3D reconstruction of critical workplace body postures from range imaging data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 85, Issue , 2013, Pages 56-65

  Westfeld, Patrick ^a   Maas, Hans Gerd ^a   Bringmann, Oliver ^b   Gröllich, Daniel ^a   Schmauder, Martin ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b kubit GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Awkward body postures; CAD manikin; Human motion; Least squares tracking; Potential energy model surface fit; Range camera

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER VISION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BODY POSTURES; ENERGY MODEL; HUMAN MOTIONS; LEAST SQUARE; RANGE CAMERAS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AUTOMATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; POSTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84884187460     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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