Computer Vision-Based Human Body Segmentation and Posture Estimation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-133

  Juang, Chia Feng ^a   Chang, Chia Ming ^a   Wu, Jiuh Rou ^a   Lee, Demei ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Background difference; body posture estimation; Euler number; human body silhouette; moving object segmentation; posture analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008024206     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: 15582426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2009.2008397     Document Type: Article

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