Analyzing articulated motion using expectation-maximization

We present a novel application of the Expectation-Maximization algorithm to the global analysis of articulated motion. The approach utilizes a kinematic model to constrain the motion estimates, producing a segmentation of the flow field into parts with different articulated motions. Experiments with synthetic and real images are described.

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