Strike a pose: tracking people by finding stylized poses

• Published in: 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) Vol. 1; pp. 271 - 278 vol. 1
• Main Authors: Ramanan, D., Forsyth, D.A., Zisserman, A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Data mining; Detectors; Humans; Kinematics; Large-scale systems; Legged locomotion; Predictive models; Surveillance; Testing; Tracking

We develop an algorithm for finding and kinematically tracking multiple people in long sequences. Our basic assumption is that people tend to take on certain canonical poses, even when performing unusual activities like throwing a baseball or figure skating. We build a person detector that quite acc...