Title :
Colour based human motion tracking for home-based rehabilitation
Author :
Tao, Yaqin ; Hu, Huosheng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Essex Univ., Colchester
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;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
The Hague
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8566-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1398396
