Model Based Approach to Non-Intrusive Human Motion Capture

Modelling and Animation of human movement with the use of motion capture is a valuable process for creating true 'life-like' motion for areas such as sports science, entertainment, and the medical industry. Traditional methods involved using intrusive techniques for the purpose of capturing the location and subsequent movements of joints and limbs. This paper describes the work being carried out by the Vision Systems Group of Dublin City University, where non-intrusive human motion capture techniques are used. It outlines the fully kinematical model created and the system used to segment and track a moving human from video sequences, using vision processing means only.