title: Leveraging Two Kinect Sensors for Accurate Full-Body Motion Capture.
abstract: Accurate motion capture plays an important role in sports analysis, the medical field and virtual reality. Current methods for motion capture often suffer from occlusions, which limits the accuracy of their pose estimation. In this paper, we propose a complete system to measure the pose parameters of the human body accurately. Different from previous monocular depth camera systems, we leverage two Kinect sensors to acquire more information about human movements, which ensures that we can still get an accurate estimation even when significant occlusion occurs. Because human motion is temporally constant, we adopt a learning analysis to mine the temporal information across the posture variations. Using this information, we estimate human pose parameters accurately, regardless of rapid movement. Our experimental results show that our system can perform an accurate pose estimation of the human body with the constraint of information from the temporal domain.
authors.affiliation: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China. gaozq1992@163.com.
authors.forename: Zhiquan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China. allanyu@nju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China. nackzhou@nju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210046, China. coff128@nju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Sidan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Du
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009038:Motion; D011187:Posture; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Kinect sensors; motion capture; pose estimation; temporal constraint