• DocumentCode
    2627849
  • Title

    Colour based human motion tracking for home-based rehabilitation

  • Author

    Tao, Yaqin ; Hu, Huosheng

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Essex Univ., Colchester
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    0
  • fDate
    0-0 0
  • Firstpage
    773
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we propose a colour based tracking algorithm for capturing the motion of human body parts for home-based rehabilitation. Different colour belts are attached to the body joints of interest and tracked in the video sequence. The performance of the colour-based tracking algorithm is analysed by comparing the tracking results with the results from a commercial marker-based tracking system, Qualisys. The experiment results show the efficiency of our method in tracking simple target reaching motion of human arms
  • Keywords
    biomechanics; image colour analysis; image motion analysis; medical image processing; patient rehabilitation; Qualisys commercial marker-based tracking system; colour based human motion tracking; colour belts; home-based rehabilitation; video sequence; Algorithm design and analysis; Cameras; Computer science; Feature extraction; Humans; Image motion analysis; Joints; Motion analysis; Optical filters; Target tracking;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    The Hague
  • ISSN
    1062-922X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8566-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1398396
  • Filename
    1398396