Kinect evaluation for human body movement analysis

Author

Pedro, Leonardo Marquez ; de Paula Caurin, Glauco Augusto

Author_Institution

Eng. Sch. of Sao Carlos, Univ. of Sao Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

24-27 June 2012

Firstpage

1856

Lastpage

1861

Abstract

The movement analysis of the human body is an interesting task for applications in rehabilitation assisted by robots and robotic manipulation. This paper presents a simplified system using the Kinect sensor and simple image processing algorithms for the extraction of identification points. Experiments were conducted to identify whether the sensor has good characteristics for the considered applications. A repeatability experiment were carried out and its results indicate that the sensor can be used to measure three-dimensional identification points distances regarding the applications requirements within the operational range from 0.5m up to 2m.

Keywords

feature extraction; image motion analysis; image sensors; medical robotics; patient rehabilitation; Kinect evaluation; Kinect sensor; assisted rehabilitation; human body movement analysis; identification point extraction; image processing algorithms; repeatability experiment; robotic manipulation; three-dimensional identification points; Biological system modeling; Light emitting diodes; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Standards; Tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2012 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

2155-1774

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1199-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290751

Filename

6290751