Hierarchical Implicit Surface Joint Limits to Constrain Video-Based Motion Capture

To increase the reliability of existing human motion tracking algorithms, we propose a method for imposing limits on the underlying hierarchical joint structures in a way that is true to life. Unlike most existing approaches, we explicitly represent dependencies between the various degrees of freedom and derive these limits from actual experimental data.

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