Visual Analysis of Humans
Visual Analysis of Humans

Author: Thomas B. Moeslund

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-10-08

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 0857299972

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This unique text/reference provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of all aspects of video analysis of humans. Broad in coverage and accessible in style, the text presents original perspectives collected from preeminent researchers gathered from across the world. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art research, the book reviews the historical origins of the different existing methods, and predicts future trends and challenges. Features: with a Foreword by Professor Larry Davis; contains contributions from an international selection of leading authorities in the field; includes an extensive glossary; discusses the problems associated with detecting and tracking people through camera networks; examines topics related to determining the time-varying 3D pose of a person from video; investigates the representation and recognition of human and vehicular actions; reviews the most important applications of activity recognition, from biometrics and surveillance, to sports and driver assistance.

Qualitative Analysis of Human Movement
Qualitative Analysis of Human Movement

Author: Duane V. Knudson

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780736034623

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Forlagets beskrivelse: An interdisciplinary approach to the qualitative analysis of human movement. The authors explain how to blend experience and sport science to improve movement. The accompanying CD-ROM is designed to help the user improve their observational and analytical skills.

Biomechanical Basis of Human Movement
Biomechanical Basis of Human Movement

Author: Joseph Hamill

Publisher: LWW

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781451177305

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Focusing on the quantitative nature of biomechanics, this book integrates current literature, meaningful numerical examples, relevant applications, hands-on exercises, and functional anatomy, physics, calculus, and physiology to help students - regardless of their mathematical background - understand the full continuum of human movement potential.

From Fragments to Objects
From Fragments to Objects

Author: Thomas F. Shipley

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2001-11-30

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 9780444505064

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"This book addresses the problem of how the human visual system organizes inputs that are fragmented in space and time into coherent, stable perceptual units - objects. In doing so it addresses the following questions: what kinds of segmentation and grouping abilities exist in human perceivers? What information and computational processes achieve segmentation and grouping? What are the psychological consequences of perceiving whole objects?" "From Fragments to Objects: Segmentation and Grouping in Vision takes a comprehensive cognitive science approach to object perception, brings together separate lines of research in object perception in one volume, gives an integrated and up-to-date review of theory and empirical research and offers directions for future study."--Jacket.

Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action
Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action

Author: Roberta L. Klatzky

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2008-06-20

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1136678441

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The majority of research on human perception and action examines sensors and effectors in relative isolation. What is less often considered in these research domains is that humans interact with a perceived world in which they themselves are part of the perceptual representation, as are the positions and actions (potential or ongoing) of other acti

Qualitative Diagnosis of Human Movement
Qualitative Diagnosis of Human Movement

Author: Duane V. Knudson

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1450421032

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This volume provides an interdisciplinary approach to the qualitative analysis of human movement. It explains how to blend experience and sport science to improve movement.

Motion-Based Recognition
Motion-Based Recognition

Author: Mubarak Shah

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1997-07-31

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780792346180

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Motion-based recognition deals with the recognition of an object and/or its motion, based on motion in a series of images. In this approach, a sequence containing a large number of frames is used to extract motion information. The advantage is that a longer sequence leads to recognition of higher level motions, like walking or running, which consist of a complex and coordinated series of events. Unlike much previous research in motion, this approach does not require explicit reconstruction of shape from the images prior to recognition. This book provides the state-of-the-art in this rapidly developing discipline. It consists of a collection of invited chapters by leading researchers in the world covering various aspects of motion-based recognition including lipreading, gesture recognition, facial expression recognition, gait analysis, cyclic motion detection, and activity recognition. Audience: This volume will be of interest to researchers and post- graduate students whose work involves computer vision, robotics and image processing.

Human Motion
Human Motion

Author: Bodo Rosenhahn

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 1402066929

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This is the first book which informs about recent progress in biomechanics, computer vision and computer graphics – all in one volume. Researchers from these areas have contributed to this book to promote the establishment of human motion research as a multi-facetted discipline and to improve the exchange of ideas and concepts between these three areas. The book combines carefully written reviews with detailed reports on recent progress in research.

Measurement and Analysis of Human Locomotion
Measurement and Analysis of Human Locomotion

Author: Vladimir Medved

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-23

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 303079685X

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This book addresses instruments, methodologies and diagnostic methods used to evaluate and diagnose human movement, locomotion and physical status in general. Starting from historical perspective, the idea of understanding human locomotion by applying technical measurement devices and incorporating measurement data into physical representation of gross body movement is presented and explained, an approach known as inverse dynamics. With this approach as a kind of umbrella concept, components of measurement systems including relevant signal and data processing methods are described. Modern instruments to capture body movement by measuring its kinematics, kinetics and surface electromyography (sEMG) are thus described; all systems being used dominantly—if not exclusively—in a movement analysis laboratory setting. Focusing mainly on human posture and gait, but including also examples of movement patterns from selected kinesiological and sports activities, the book attempts to present essentials of biomechanics and biomedical engineering approach to this subject matter. It illustrates how data collected and elaborated by modern engineering technology can complement traditional expert knowledge of a kinesiologist or a medical doctor. The book is applicable in the fields of sports, physical activities, as well as in medical diagnostics and rehabilitation. The examples of this book’s practical application might be in evaluation of efficiency of human gait, in evaluation of skeletal muscle fatigue in physical exercise, in biomechanical diagnostics of traumatological conditions requiring orthopaedic treatment and the like. This book can also be used in planning and executing research endeavours, particularly in a clinical context as a reference for various diagnostics procedures. It presents the lecture notes of a course carrying the same name within Medical Studies in English at the University of Zagreb for more than a decade.