Modeling of human postures using stereo camera

This paper proposes an automatic human posture acquisition technique by a robot. Decrease of working population will be a vital problem in our society. Escaping from the work in danger is also important for a human being to raise QOL. To solve all theses issues, it may be quite useful to realize a robot which works in place of a human. Based on this background, our research aims at making a technique for a robot to acquire various human postures/motions automatically. In this paper, a technique is presented for obtaining human postures automatically by employing a human skeleton model and a stereo camera system. Performance of the technique is shown experimentally.