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Movement Analysis based on Virtual Reality and 3D Depth Sensing Camera for Whole Body Rehabilitation
Movement analysis is a complex technique to measure and evaluate the movements of the human body. It can be
adopted to support various activities, including rehabilitation. Over the last decade, many systems for capturing
human movements have been developed. The most advanced motion capturing systems use image processing
techniques through the analysis of live video streams collected from a set of video cameras. These systems
are very expensive, need to be installed and used by professionals. Moreover, they are not intended for patient
rehabilitation, at home. Rehabilitation can be facilitated and accelerated by using virtual reality and movement
analysis assisting systems.
This paper describes a rehabilitation system for domestic whole body rehabilitation. It is composed by a virtual
reality environment where spatial information of the human body are collected by a 3D depth sensing camera
and inserted into the virtual world. The system is designed to perform data analysis by an off-line motion
tracking algorithm. A complete set of rehabilitation exercises have been also implemented. A trial exercise is
illustrated and discussed