A Bayesian framework for 3D human motion tracking from monocular image

This paper addresses a strategy for 3D human motion recovery from monocular image. We advocate the use of Gaussian Process Dynamical Model (GPDM) for learning human pose and motion priors for 3D people tracking. With the prior learned from GPDM, we integrate our approach into a Bayesian tracking framework of condensation. During the off-line training step, a GPDM provides the reversible mappings between low-dimensional latent space and high-dimensional pose space, and then in the online tracking process, the latent variables are estimated via the particle filtering, and the observation is designed as a energy function based on a Markov Random Field (MRF) theory. The proposed approach is demonstrated on our database, and the experimental results show that our method performs promisingly.