Human Posture Recognition: Background Subtraction and Skeletonization

With the advent of new and improved technology in the market, it has become extremely important to gather information and create user friendly applications. Be it for security purposes or tracking purposes, monitoring human activities to create a human gesture-friendly interface is now a major branch of research. We hope to present one such method to observe and interpret human activities. This paper describes methods to obtain human activity records (in the form of images or videos) and perform suitable actions on these records to extract useful information out of them. Background subtraction is the initial one of the most important procedures performed on the image or video. Next comes preprocessing the record to improve quality. Then finally comes Skeletonisation. We focus on Background Subtraction method using the image pixels and Skeletonisation in this paper and provide the basic steps and strategies regarding it.