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Algorithm

This section describes the model matching algorithm we proposed. It utilizes the node modes and takes the relationship between the difference images and the projections of the human model into consideration. The process deals with a node one by one at each frame. The flowchart of the matching algorithm for a node is as shown in Figure 1.

  
Figure 1: Flowchart of processing a node at each frame

Suppose the process comes to the frame n.

First, check whether the current node is in the occlusion mode or not. If it is in the occlusion mode, the joint angle is estimated according to the prediction using the inertia discussed before.

Then, search which maximizes the area size by varying the joint angle . If the difference image is the first one in the image sequence (that means n = 2), is formulated as the equation (6). Otherwise, it is defined as the equation (7).

 

 

In the formulations, indicates the region projected by the node p at time . is an union region of the projections of the nodes that have been estimated at time . And is a projection of the human model at time that is given to the system in advance. is an exclusive-or operator between two binary regions.

If is larger than the threshold value , the node p is determined to be moving, otherwise stationary. The threshold is introduced to remove the influence of the noise occurred in the calculation of the difference. If the node is determined to be in the moving mode, the joint angles of the node is set to . If the node is determined to be in the stationary mode, the joint angles are set to the predicted ones discussed in Section 3 and its rotational speed is reset to zero so that it stands still.

After processing all the nodes in the model at one frame, the model matching algorithm goes to the next frame and continues the process until it comes to the end of the image sequence.



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Yoshinari Kameda
Mon Apr 7 14:56:47 JST 1997