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VNect: Real-time 3D Human Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Camera
We present the first real-time method to capture the full global 3D skeletal
pose of a human in a stable, temporally consistent manner using a single RGB
camera. Our method combines a new convolutional neural network (CNN) based pose
regressor with kinematic skeleton fitting. Our novel fully-convolutional pose
formulation regresses 2D and 3D joint positions jointly in real time and does
not require tightly cropped input frames. A real-time kinematic skeleton
fitting method uses the CNN output to yield temporally stable 3D global pose
reconstructions on the basis of a coherent kinematic skeleton. This makes our
approach the first monocular RGB method usable in real-time applications such
as 3D character control---thus far, the only monocular methods for such
applications employed specialized RGB-D cameras. Our method's accuracy is
quantitatively on par with the best offline 3D monocular RGB pose estimation
methods. Our results are qualitatively comparable to, and sometimes better
than, results from monocular RGB-D approaches, such as the Kinect. However, we
show that our approach is more broadly applicable than RGB-D solutions, i.e. it
works for outdoor scenes, community videos, and low quality commodity RGB
cameras.Comment: Accepted to SIGGRAPH 201
Radar and RGB-depth sensors for fall detection: a review
This paper reviews recent works in the literature on the use of systems based on radar and RGB-Depth (RGB-D) sensors for fall detection, and discusses outstanding research challenges and trends related to this research field. Systems to detect reliably fall events and promptly alert carers and first responders have gained significant interest in the past few years in order to address the societal issue of an increasing number of elderly people living alone, with the associated risk of them falling and the consequences in terms of health treatments, reduced well-being, and costs. The interest in radar and RGB-D sensors is related to their capability to enable contactless and non-intrusive monitoring, which is an advantage for practical deployment and users’ acceptance and compliance, compared with other sensor technologies, such as video-cameras, or wearables. Furthermore, the possibility of combining and fusing information from The heterogeneous types of sensors is expected to improve the overall performance of practical fall detection systems. Researchers from different fields can benefit from multidisciplinary knowledge and awareness of the latest developments in radar and RGB-D sensors that this paper is discussing
Skeleton based action recognition using translation-scale invariant image mapping and multi-scale deep cnn
This paper presents an image classification based approach for skeleton-based
video action recognition problem. Firstly, A dataset independent
translation-scale invariant image mapping method is proposed, which transformes
the skeleton videos to colour images, named skeleton-images. Secondly, A
multi-scale deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture is proposed
which could be built and fine-tuned on the powerful pre-trained CNNs, e.g.,
AlexNet, VGGNet, ResNet etal.. Even though the skeleton-images are very
different from natural images, the fine-tune strategy still works well. At
last, we prove that our method could also work well on 2D skeleton video data.
We achieve the state-of-the-art results on the popular benchmard datasets e.g.
NTU RGB+D, UTD-MHAD, MSRC-12, and G3D. Especially on the largest and challenge
NTU RGB+D, UTD-MHAD, and MSRC-12 dataset, our method outperforms other methods
by a large margion, which proves the efficacy of the proposed method
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