Human posture recognition using curved segments for image retrieval

JongSeung Park; HwangSeok Oh; DukHo Chang; EeTack Lee

doi:10.1117/12.373539

23 December 1999 Human posture recognition using curved segments for image retrieval

JongSeung Park, HwangSeok Oh, DukHo Chang, EeTack Lee

Proceedings Volume 3972, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2000; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.373539
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper presents a human posture recognition method form a single image. We first segment an image into homogeneous regions and extract curve segments corresponding to human body parts. Each body part is considered as a 2D ribbon. From the smooth curve segments in skin regions, 2D ribbons are extracted and a human body model is constructed. We assign a predefined posture type to the image according to the constructed body model. For the user input query to retrieve images containing human of specific posture, the system convert the query to a body model. The body model is compared to other body models saved in the local storage of target images and images of good matches are retrieved. When a face detection result is available for the given image, it is also used to increase the reliability of body model. For the query human posture, our system retrieves images of the corresponding posture. As another application, the proposed method provides an initial location of a human body to track in a video sequence.

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JongSeung Park, HwangSeok Oh, DukHo Chang, and EeTack Lee "Human posture recognition using curved segments for image retrieval", Proc. SPIE 3972, Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2000, (23 December 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.373539

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