Are a specific type of depth sensing devices that work in association with a RGB camera, that are able to augment the conventional image with depth information (related with the distance to the sensor) in a per-pixel basis.
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Human Motion Analysis and Simulation Tools: A Survey
João F. Nunes (Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo e Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência dos Computadores da Universidade do Porto, Portugal), Pedro M. Moreira (Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo e Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência dos Computadores da Universidade do Porto, Portugal), and João Manuel R. S. Tavares (Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 30
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8823-0.ch012
Abstract
Computational systems to identify objects represented in image sequences and tracking their motion in a fully automatic manner, enabling a detailed analysis of the involved motion and its simulation are extremely relevant in several fields of our society. In particular, the analysis and simulation of the human motion has a wide spectrum of relevant applications with a manifest social and economic impact. In fact, usage of human motion data is fundamental in a broad number of domains (e.g.: sports, rehabilitation, robotics, surveillance, gesture-based user interfaces, etc.). Consequently, many relevant engineering software applications have been developed with the purpose of analyzing and/or simulating the human motion. This chapter presents a detailed, broad and up to date survey on motion simulation and/or analysis software packages that have been developed either by the scientific community or commercial entities. Moreover, a main contribution of this chapter is an effective framework to classify and compare motion simulation and analysis tools.